ECOWAS Chairman Leaves 8th TICAD in Protest against Polisario Participation

28/08/2022

Tunis – The President of Guinea Bissau and current chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Umaro Sissoco Embalo, left the 8th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), opened Saturday in Tunis, to protest against the Tunisia-imposed participation of the “polisario”, diplomatic sources say.

This decision reinforces the position of a large number of African countries including Senegal, which regretted that this meeting of the TICAD is marked by the absence of Morocco, a prominent member of the African Union, for lack of consensus on a question of representation.

Morocco decided not to participate in the 8th TICAD Summit to be held in Tunisia on August 27 and 28 and to immediately recall in consultation the Ambassador of HM the King in Tunis “following the attitude of this country in the process of the Japan-Africa Cooperation Forum which has confirmed in a flagrant manner its hostility towards the Kingdom.