“All citizens of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic are White.”

Its surface area is 284,000 km² and its population is close to half a million inhabitants, of Arab, Berberand African origin.

Its surface area is 284,000 km² and its population is close to half a million inhabitants, of Arab, Berberand African origin.

Saharawis are of mixed Berber, Arab and black African descent.

The Saharawi of the Western Sahara are members of one of 22 nomadic tribes, one fifth of whom regularly move across the country's nominal borders. They are the result of the fusion of Sanhaja Berbers, Bedouin Arabs known as the Beni Hassan, and black African slaves.

The ethnic groups in it consist of Arabs, Berbers, and Africans who speak Classical Arabic in addition to the Hassaniya dialect and Spanish as a second official language, while Sunni Islam — according to the Maliki school of jurisprudence — remains the only religion in the country.

Saharawis are of mixed Berber, Arab and black African descent.

Sahrawis (Arabic for Saharan; also spelled Saharawis) are the native people of Western Sahara, of mixed Berber, Arab and sub-Saharan African descent.

The modern day Sahrawis are a mixed ethnic group of diverse Berbers, Sahelian, West Africans & Arabs background. … All these groups were considered to be among the bidan grouping. … Below them ranked servile groups known as Haratin, according to some sources descendants of the earlier pre-Arab populations.

All Sahrawis enjoy the same civil and political rights and have the same duties without any distinction or discrimination between them.

Nonetheless, the 1999 Constitution, revised in 2015, does not define its nationals, providing only that they are African, Arab, and Muslim people.

The Sahrawi people are a primarily nomadic cultural and ethnic group of Arab and Amazigh (also known as Berber) descent.

They are of mixed Hassani Arab and Sanhaji Berber descent, as well as West African and other indigenous populations. … The modern day Sahrawis are a mixed ethnic group of diverse Berbers, Sahelian, West Africans & Arabs background. … Below them ranked servile groups known as Haratin, according to some sources descendants of the earlier pre-Arab populations.

In 1993, about a third of the Sahrawis belonged to the Haratin group, a special case that is sometimes described as a sect or social class. The Haratin are descendants of slaves who worked as servants or herders for the nomads, like the Bella among the Tuareg.

They are of mixed [Hassani](./Beni_Ḥassān) [Arab](./Arabs) and [Sanhaji](./Sanhaja) [Berber](./Berbers) descent, as well as [West African](./West_African) and other indigenous populations.

The population of Western Sahara is diverse. (indigenous) and Sahrawis make up one third of the population in the Western Sahara territory.

A sub-group of the Moors, they are of mixed Berber, Arab, and black African descent. … Sahrawi society consists of four main groups: warriors; marabouts, or holy people; tribute payers, who pay taxes to the higher classes; and black slaves.

There are different human groups in the Sahara Desert, although their lifestyles are similar, ranging between nomadism and mostly primitive settlement, relying in most cases on animal husbandry, in addition to agriculture and the emergence of some new professions in recent decades. The population of the Sahara Desert can be divided overall into major cultural and ethnic groups: Africans, Arabs, and Amazighs. The first group includes the Toubou, Fula, Songhai, and Bambara ethnicities; the second group is mostly the Bani Hassan, Bani Maqil, and Bani Hilal tribes; and as for the third, its most important density is in southern Algeria, Libya, and Morocco, with a distinguished presence in northern Mali and Niger through the Tuareg groups.

The population of the territory consists of Hassani Arabs, in reference to Bani Hassan. The Arabic dialect spoken in the territory is the Hassaniya dialect, and Islam according to the Maliki school of thought is predominant in the region.

Ethnic groups: Arab, Berber

This work is a socio-historical study of the roots of Sahrawi national identity. The Sahrawi are a community of people who live in the Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony. … This study provides a detailed account of Sahrawi identity formation and how it has developed in intensity and scope. It renders a clear understanding of the Sahrawi phenomenon, useful to the international community in its deliberations on the validity of their nationalism.

Ethnic groups: Arab, Berber

The study emphasizes that the Amazigh identity of the Sahara represents a common denominator uniting various Sahrawi tribes, regardless of their linguistic differences and origins, and serves as a title for the Sahrawi commonality with its values, customs, and alliances.

And many did not notice at that time that the separatist front only represents a small minority of the so-called "Sahrawi people", which is in fact composed in its majority of Amazigh tribes known for their origins, traditions, customs, and language.

Historians agree that the migration of these inhabitants to the Moroccan Sahara took place from north to south, and we find among them noble Idrisi and Alawi lineages, as well as some Sanhaja lineages, branches of Zenata, Maqil Arabs, Bani Hilal, Bani Sulaym, and other tribes, who began arriving with the Islamic conquest. Thus, the Moroccan Sahara was inhabited by Berber tribes, and then the entry of Arabs began following this conquest. They became two divisions: Arabs and Berbers.