- Bir Lehlou
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footnotes =Bir Lehlou ("Bir Lehlu", Arabic: بير لحلو) is a small town in north-eastern
Western Sahara , east of the border wall, inPolisario -held territory.The Sahrawi Republic, an exiled government seated in
Tindouf ,Algeria , claims it as its interim capital, "as long as theSahrawi capital of El-Aaiun is under Moroccan control. This is also from where the republic's existence was proclaimed over radio onFebruary 27 ,1976 , byEl-Ouali Mustapha Sayed . Todays 'Radio Nacional de la Republica Árabe Saharaui Democrática' keeps broadcasting from there on both medium and short wave, webcasting the programming inHassaniya Arabic , French and Spanish [http://web.jet.es/rasd/radio.htm] . Some sources list Bir Lehlou as El-Ouali's birthplace, although this seems far from certain.The name "Bir Lehlou" is transcribed from dialectal
hassaniya Arabic, and means "the beautiful well" or "spring". A standard Arabic transcription would be "bi'r al-holwa" (بئر الحلوة).See also
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Politics of Western Sahara
*History of Western Sahara
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