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.
Sahrawi activist and president of the Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA) Aminatou Haidar did not attend a meeting hosted by UN Personal Envoy Horst Köhler in Laayoune.