Sahrawi refugee camps
Humanitarian Camps
How the score is calculated
The score starts at 8. It adds points from recorded affected, deaths, displaced and casualty counts, plus terms found in the story title, event type or status. For each count, only its highest matching band is used.
- Affected people
- 1–999: +5 · 1,000–9,999: +12 · 10,000–99,999: +20 · 100,000–999,999: +28 · 1 million+: +35
- Deaths
- 1–9: +8 · 10–99: +14 · 100–999: +22 · 1,000+: +30
- Displaced people
- 1–9,999: +6 · 10,000–99,999: +12 · 100,000+: +18
- Casualties
- 100 or more: +8
- Story wording
- +10 for terms such as catastrophe, famine, war, conflict, major earthquake, mass casualty or critical. Otherwise, +5 for active, ongoing, emergency, outbreak, cyclone or hurricane.
Score bands: Watch 0–24 · Moderate 25–49 · High 50–74 · Critical 75–100. Scores are capped at 100. Missing or unparseable figures add no points.
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Historical record
Status: CLOSED · Imported 2026-10-07
Closed for this historical import at the site owner’s request; not a new assessment of current conditions.
In brief
- What happenedThe Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, are a collection of refugee camps set up in the Tindouf Province , Algeria in 1975–76 for Sahrawi refugees fleeing from Moroccan forces , who advanced through Western Sahara during the Western Sahara War .
- How many affectedThe cited sources do not yet provide a reliable affected-person total.
- What help is neededWith most of the original refugees still living in the camps, the situation is among the most protracted in the world. [1] [2] The limited opportunities for self-reliance in the harsh desert environment have forced the refugees to rely on international humanitarian assistance for their survival. [3] However, the Tindouf camps differ from the majority of refugee camps in the level of self-organization.
What changed
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Situation
The Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, are a collection of refugee camps set up in the Tindouf Province , Algeria in 1975–76 for Sahrawi refugees fleeing from Moroccan forces , who advanced through Western Sahara during the Western Sahara War . With most of the original refugees still living in the camps, the situation is among the most protracted in the world. [1] [2] The limited opportunities for self-reliance in the harsh desert environment have forced the refugees to rely on international humanitarian assistance for their survival. [3] However, the Tindouf camps differ from the majority of refugee camps in the level of self-organization. Most affairs and camp life organization is run by the refugees themselves, with little outside interference. [4] The camps are divided into five wilayat (districts) named after towns in Western Sahara; Laayoune, Awserd, Smara, Dakhla and more recently Cape Bojador (or the daira of Bojador). [5] In addition comes the smaller satellite camp "February 27", surrounding the boarding school for women, and the administrative camp Rabouni. [6] The encampments are spread out over a quite large area. While Laayoune, Smara, Awserd, February 27 and Rabouni all lie within an hour's drive of the Algerian city of Tindouf , the Dakhla camp lies 170 km to the southeast. The camps are also the headquarters of the 6th military region of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic .
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