Significant1975 – 1978 · 3 years

Mauritanian Civil War

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Mauritania · Western Sahara · North Africa

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Conflict involving Mauritania's claims to Western Sahara and independence movements.

Belligerents2

Mauritania
POLISARIO Front

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Mauritanian Civil War (1975 – 1978). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/mauritanian-civil-war · Sources & methodology