Tifariti's a small town or village located in Polisario-controlled Western Sahara, east of the Moroccan Berm. It's part of what Polisario call the Free Zone and Morocco call the Buffer Zone. Primarily a nomadic encampment, it was always a kind of seasonal town for the Sahrawis, an Arabic-speaking Bedouin people controlling the area since medieval times. Now mostly in ruins, it's estimated that Tifariti had a population of approximately 7,000 inhabitants in 1975. Its inhabitants largely abandone… (More on Tifariti)