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The Southern Provinces or '''Moroccan Sahara''' are the Moroccan names for Western Sahara , indicating its Annexation by the kingdom. The provinces in question are Río De Oro and Saguia El-Hamra . Rio de Oro was annexed by Morocco and Saguia el-Hamra by Mauritania (as Tiris Al-Gharbiyya ) in 1975, after the Madrid Accords with Spain . An Indigenous Sahrawi organization, the Algeria backed Polisario Front , waged a Guerrilla War on what they termed a new Colonization , which caused Mauritania to pull out in 1979. Morocco then proceeded to annex Saguia el-Hamra as well.

Since a .

Morocco divided the territory under its control into administrative units (''wilayas'') after ) was added.