2019 in Western Sahara

Ongoing: Western Sahara conflict

• On March 25, 2019, Morocco convened an African Ministerial Conference on Western Sahara, bringing together African diplomats to discuss the dispute and promote Morocco’s autonomy plan for the territory.^[1]
• In June 2019, the governments of El Salvador and Barbados officially withdrew their recognition of the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), a diplomatic shift away from the Polisario Front’s independence claim.^[2]