diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7c1b6a7..2df469a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2297,9 +2297,9 @@ Release 2016g - 2016-09-13 08:56:38 -0700
     zic no longer generates binary files containing POSIX TZ-like
     strings that disagree with the local time type after the last
     explicit transition in the data.  This fixes a bug with
-    Africa/Casablanca and Africa/El_Aaiun in some year-2037 timestamps
-    on the reference platform.  (Thanks to Alexander Belopolsky for
-    reporting the bug and suggesting a way forward.)
+    Africa/Casablanca in some year-2037 timestamps on the reference
+    platform.  (Thanks to Alexander Belopolsky for reporting the bug
+    and suggesting a way forward.)
 
     If the installed localtime and/or posixrules files are symbolic
     links, zic now keeps them symbolic links when updating them, for
@@ -3654,9 +3654,6 @@ Release 2013h - 2013-10-25 15:32:32 -0700
     Libya has switched its UT offset back to +02 without DST, instead
     of +01 with DST.  (Thanks to Even Scharning.)
 
-    Western Sahara (Africa/El_Aaiun) uses Morocco's DST rules.
-    (Thanks to Gwillim Law.)
-
   Changes affecting future timestamps:
 
     Acre and (we guess) western Amazonas will switch from UT -04 to -05
diff --git a/africa b/africa
index cfb9283..91b8342 100644
--- a/africa
+++ b/africa
@@ -1064,22 +1064,6 @@ Zone Africa/Casablanca	-0:30:20 -	LMT	1913 Oct 26
 			 0:00	Morocco	+00/+01	2018 Oct 28  3:00
 			 1:00	Morocco	+01/+00
 
-# Western Sahara
-#
-# From Gwillim Law (2013-10-22):
-# A correspondent who is usually well informed about time zone matters
-# ... says that Western Sahara observes daylight saving time, just as
-# Morocco does.
-#
-# From Paul Eggert (2013-10-23):
-# Assume that this has been true since Western Sahara switched to GMT,
-# since most of it was then controlled by Morocco.
-
-Zone Africa/El_Aaiun	-0:52:48 -	LMT	1934 Jan # El Aaiún
-			-1:00	-	-01	1976 Apr 14
-			 0:00	Morocco	+00/+01	2018 Oct 28  3:00
-			 1:00	Morocco	+01/+00
-
 # Botswana
 # Burundi
 # Democratic Republic of the Congo (eastern)
diff --git a/zone.tab b/zone.tab
index d2d1d53..4888ca3 100644
--- a/zone.tab
+++ b/zone.tab
@@ -166,7 +166,6 @@ EC	-0210-07950	America/Guayaquil	Ecuador (mainland)
 EC	-0054-08936	Pacific/Galapagos	Galapagos Islands
 EE	+5925+02445	Europe/Tallinn
 EG	+3003+03115	Africa/Cairo
-EH	+2709-01312	Africa/El_Aaiun
 ER	+1520+03853	Africa/Asmara
 ES	+4024-00341	Europe/Madrid	Spain (mainland)
 ES	+3553-00519	Africa/Ceuta	Ceuta, Melilla
diff --git a/zone1970.tab b/zone1970.tab
index 2a19b85..8572d37 100644
--- a/zone1970.tab
+++ b/zone1970.tab
@@ -140,7 +140,6 @@ EC	-0210-07950	America/Guayaquil	Ecuador (mainland)
 EC	-0054-08936	Pacific/Galapagos	Galápagos Islands
 EE	+5925+02445	Europe/Tallinn
 EG	+3003+03115	Africa/Cairo
-EH	+2709-01312	Africa/El_Aaiun
 ES	+4024-00341	Europe/Madrid	Spain (mainland)
 ES	+3553-00519	Africa/Ceuta	Ceuta, Melilla
 ES	+2806-01524	Atlantic/Canary	Canary Islands
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