>>212151299
They are mutts, some of them claim to be sahraouis, some just don't know, but whats for sure is that areas original inhabitants are long gone, and what they are is probably a bunch of saharan/ssa+local mercenaries offspring.
As for the gharb, azaghar, whatever you wanna call it, historically it was seen as a very fertile area, and it aligns up with the displacements some moroccan sultans historically took upon some other populations, so yeah, it wasn't as much of no mans land as you claim.