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Ma El AininMa El Ainin was a Saharan tribesman and freedom fighter in late 19th-century Western Sahara. He encouraged the nomadic peoples of the region to fight colonial powers, particularly French and Spanish, and established the town of Smara as a holy capital in the region. His political goal in creating the city was to make a center of commerce between sub-Saharan Africa and Europe. Many members of the Western Sahara independence movement Polisario claim lineage from him. |
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