The Treaty redefined in its Article 1(d) Africa, no more as a continent of one region but as a continent of five regions: West Africa, North Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, and Southern Africa. Algeria supported the Polisario Front, especially in order to counter Morocco’s regional influence and maintain a strategic buffer on its own border. It could not be logically deducted from his submissions that he truly believed in the need for Morocco’s membership. Mauritania remains part of the West Africa region but no longer a member of the ECOWAS region. In order to address this problem, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was created by the African Union on January 1.