Background
While her parents lived in Tan-Tan, a small city south of Morocco with significant Sahrawi population (and former South Zone of the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco) where she passed her childhood, Aminatou was born in 1966 in Akka, Morocco, her grandmother's town, due to a bedouin tradition. She is not member of the Polisario Front, although she considers the movement as the only representative of the Sahrawi people. She is divorced with two children, Hayat and Mohammed.
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