Agounit (also

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Aghouinite, Aghounit, Aghoueinit, Agueinit, Agwenit, Agwanit, Agüenit, Aguanit;

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: أغوانيت) is a small town or village in the

Río de Oro Río de Oro ( Spanish for "Gold River"; , ''wādī-að-ðahab'', often transliterated as ''Oued Edhahab'') was, with Saguia el-Hamra, one of the two territories that formed the Spanish province of Spanish Sahara after 1969; it had been taken a ...

area of the disputed territory of

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. It is situated in the

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-held Free Zone of Western Sahara, under the jurisdiction of the

Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (; SADR; also romanized with Saharawi; ar, الجمهورية العربية الصحراوية الديمقراطية ' es, República Árabe Saharaui Democrática), also known as Western Sahara, is a ...

, and near the Mauritanian border, 72 km. south-west from Fderik. It is claimed by

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as a

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in the Aousserd Province in the region of Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab. At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 222 people living in 43 households. It has a hospital, a

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and a

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. It is the head of the 7th military region of the

. It is also the name of a

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of the

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of Auserd, in the

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Infrastructure

On June 7, 2006, and during the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the "Day of the Martyr" (commemorating the death in combat of El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed, first president of the

SADR The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (; SADR; also romanized with Saharawi; ar, الجمهورية العربية الصحراوية الديمقراطية ' es, República Árabe Saharaui Democrática), also known as Western Sahara, is a p ...

), Mohamed Abdelaziz (president of the SADR) inaugurated a hospital (built up with help from the

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government), a desalination centre (built with the help of

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government), a school and the Mayoralty of Agwenit.

Politics

In May 2000, the

celebrated the 27th anniversary of the beginning of their armed struggle with a military parade in Agounit. In June 2006 (during the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the "Day of the Martyr") the town was the host of the annual conference of the Sahrawi communities abroad (''Sahrawi diaspora'').

International relations

Twin towns and sister cities

Agounit is

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with: * Amurrio,

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* Busturia,

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, Basque Country, Spain *

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, Livorno,

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References

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