After Indonesia, the Polisario excluded from the China-Africa Forum

Beijing has excluded the Polisario Front from the China-Africa summit, which opened on Tuesday, September 3, with a meeting of foreign ministers.

In August, Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf met with the Chinese ambassador in Algiers to advocate for the Polisario's inclusion in the China-Africa summit.

An Algerian media outlet subsequently claimed that the Polisario's presence at the China-Africa summit was a «de facto necessity».

Beijing has consistently rejected Algerian and South African efforts to include the Polisario in the China-Africa summit, even before Morocco joined the African Union in 2017.

Like the Indonesia-Africa Forum, neither the Polisario nor Algeria has publicly commented on China's decision to exclude the Front from the summit.