Unlike the 2017 edition, Aminatou Haidar did not take part to the Polisario officials’ summer university program held in Boumerdes. Algerian officials did not show up at the opening session of the forum.
Lecturer and researcher at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla in Mexico, Mohammed Badine El Yattioui also chairs a think tank destined to Morocco. Living and studying in France, the Moroccan professor creates a bridge linking his mother land to Mexico.