The Security Council unanimously adopted on Thursday a resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) for twelve months and reiterating calls to achieve a political solution to the long-standing Western Sahara dispute as an enhanced cooperation between the Member States of the Maghreb Arab Union would contribute [...]
Niger’s capital city, Niamey, is hosting this February 15-16 an international conference that will ponder on development and security issues in the Sahel, discuss the evolving situation in the region, and assess regional and international responses to this situation. According to the Nouakchott-based Center4S, the conference will focus on the ongoing armed conflict in Mali [...]
The early warnings expressed years ago about the serious threat weighing on the whole Sahel-Sahara region because of extremism and terrorism went unfortunately unheeded. Some countries, including the United States and Morocco, and some pundits have sounded the alarm many years ago as to the danger of the militant Islamist groups, roaming in the Sahara [...]
The new European mission meant to support the fight against organized crime and terrorism in the Sahel region, dubbed “EUCAP SAHEL Niger” kicked off earlier this month with the arrival in Niger of about 50 experts. The aim of “EUCAP SAHEL Niger”, initially due to last for two years, is to improve the capacities of [...]
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta has called on Maghreb countries to work together in the fight against the terror group, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) which is expanding its terror, human, arms & drug trafficking activities in the Sahel, threatening regional stability. In his remarks made during his trip to Tunisia part [...]
The European Union on Monday announced it would send to Africa a new EU Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) mission to support the fight against organized crime and terrorism in the Sahel Region and another team of security advisors to fight piracy in the Horn of Africa. The first civilian mission, called EUCAP SAHEL [...]
Maghreb countries have finally realized that joining efforts to fight terror groups and criminal networks operating in the region is of paramount importance to the security and stability of each and every country of the region. To discuss ways and means to counter this serious threat, the Foreign ministers of the five member countries forming [...]
A Nigerian court in Abuja Friday charged two Nigerians with having links with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The two men are accused of receiving funds from the terrorist group to finance the recruiting of militants with a view to sending them to training centers in Yemen. They are also said to have attended [...]
Shortly after he was appointed last Monday by the French Foreign Minister as his special representative for the Sahel, diplomat Jean Felix-Paganon met president Dioncounda Traoré of Mali, who was in Paris for medical treatment following his physical aggression by demonstrators last May. The French diplomat afterwards flew to the region for consultations with local [...]
The main terrorist groups operating in Africa and mainly in the Sahel region are coordinating efforts and helping each other through arms and funds sharing, a US official has warned. Speaking at a news conference in Washington recently, the head of the US Africa Command, General Carter Ham, said these groups, namely Al-Qaeda in the [...]
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