Dougaj
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| government_type = Municipality{{cite news|title=Allocating seats for the liberated territories in Parliament will be considered in the next election (Official) |url=http://www.spsrasd.info/en/content/allocating-seats-liberated-territories-parliament-will-be-considered-next-election-official |publisher=Sahara Press Service |date=2012-02-20 |accessdate=2012-02-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912163454/http://www.spsrasd.info/en/content/allocating-seats-liberated-territories-parliament-will-be-considered-next-election-official |archivedate=2014-09-12 }}
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Dougaj is a region and town situated in the south of Western Sahara of Africa approximately midway between the Agwanit region and the Moroccan Wall, 119 km from Fderik, Mauritania.
Dougaj is located in the part of Western Sahara controlled by the Polisario Front and often referred to as the Free Zone or Liberated Territories.International Crisis Group, Western Sahara: the Cost of the Conflict, Report 65, 11 June 2007, [http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/materiales/docs/ICG_Western_Sahara_The_cost_of_the_conflict.pdf Read online] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208173901/http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/materiales/docs/ICG_Western_Sahara_The_cost_of_the_conflict.pdf |date=2012-02-08 }} It is the head of the 6th military region of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, and holds an SPLA military outpost.
Infrastructure
On late June 2012, the Sahrawi Minister of Construction and Urbanization of the Liberated Territories laid the foundation stone of Dougaj's new school.{{cite news|title=Establishment of new municipalities in Saharawi liberated territories |url=http://www.spsrasd.info/en/content/establishment-new-municipalities-saharawi-liberated-territories |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130218095224/http://www.spsrasd.info/en/content/establishment-new-municipalities-saharawi-liberated-territories |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-02-18 |publisher=SPS |date=January 7, 2012 |accessdate=2012-02-07 }}
References
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External links
- [http://andrewmcconnell.photoshelter.com/image/I00006hojIRx7jAA Photo showing Dougaj military base] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318083610/http://andrewmcconnell.photoshelter.com/image/I00006hojIRx7jAA |date=2014-03-18 }}
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{{Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Municipalities}}
Category:Populated places in Western Sahara
Category:Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
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