Tinduf

Tindouf or Tinduf is the main city, and a commune in Tindouf Province, Algeria, near the Mauritanian, Western Saharan and Moroccan borders. The commune has populace of around a hundred and sixty,000 but the census and population estimates do not depend the Sahrawi refugees making the populace as of the 2008 census 45,966, up from 25,266 in 1998, and an annual populace growth charge of 6.Three%. The location is considered of strategic importance. It houses Algerian navy bases and an airport with normal flights to Algiers as well as to other domestic locations.

The settlement of Garet Djebilet lies within the municipal territory of Tindouf close to the border with Mauritania; the agreement has an iron mine and a defunct airport, and is approximately 70 kilometres northwest of Aouinet Bel Egra. Since 1975, it additionally includes several Sahrawi refugee camps operated with the aid of the Polisario Front, a country wide liberation movement seeking the self-determination of Western Sahara.