Rabouni refugee camp

Rabouni refugee camp (مخيم الرابوني) is a Sahrawi refugee camp located in Tindouf province in southwestern Algeria.

Background
It is the administrative centre of the Sahrawi refugee camps. It is the site of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) state ministries, the main hospital and the principle field offices of international non-governmental organizations and United Nations agencies that regularly operate in the refugee camps. The camp is the settlement most easily accessible by paved road from Tindouf.

On 23 October 2011, suspected Al-Qaeda militants kidnapped three foreign aid workers from Rabouni. It was not until July 2012 that they were released by Islamist militants who had been holding them in northern Mali. Consequently, SADR authorities constructed one meter high earth berms around Rabouni and other individual camps.