Speaking during an election rally, Wednesday, Mauritania’s former Defence Minister Mohamed Ould Ghazounai said that he is against the idea of granting Mauritanian citizenship to Sahrawis from the Tindouf camps. Ould Ghazouani is running for presidential elections, scheduled for June 22.
The Palestinian government has said that Morocco will not attend the US-led conference, to be hosted by Bahrain. This announcement was made after a White House senior official told media that the Kingdom, alongside Egypt and Jordan, confirmed their attendance to the meeting, expected to unveil the economic portion of the «Deal of the Century».
A Polisario delegation attended on June 10th and 11th, preparations for the Summit on the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 7). The presence of the Front was previously denounced by Morocco during two former meetings.