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McDonald's Happy Meal Map Redraws Morocco A Moroccan subsidiary of McDonald's is apologizing for a map included with a toy in Happy Meals. A small map of Morocco did not include Western Sahara which Morocco annexed in 1975. The region was torn apart by a war and currently is under a UN-brokered ceasefire. Moroccans claim Western Sahara as their region, and when they saw it missing from the map they complained.

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A Moroccan subsidiary of McDonald's is apologizing for a map included with a toy in Happy Meals. A small map of Morocco did not include Western Sahara which Morocco annexed in 1975. The region was torn apart by a war and currently is under a UN-brokered ceasefire. Moroccans claim Western Sahara as their region, and when they saw it missing from the map they complained.