Scandal: Two Algeria’s spies nabbed in France, deepening diplomatic crisis

The French authorities have announced lately the arrest of two French-Algerian nationals accused of spying for the Algerian regime, deepening further the diplomatic crisis between Paris and Algiers, reported the Paris-based news outlet Sahel Intelligence. According to the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office, a civil servant, aged 56, working for an administration of French finance ministry […]

AU-PSC: Morocco reiterates link between terrorists, criminal groups and separatists

Morocco has reiterated its position before the African Union’s Peace and Security Council (PSC) in Addis Ababa this Friday, highlighting the connections between terrorists and other criminal groups, separatists, and various entities associated with transnational organized crime. Speaking at a PSC’s meeting via videoconference, which was focused on reviewing the AU Commission Chairperson’s report on […]

Landmark ruling finds Belgium guilty of crimes against humanity in colonial Congo

The Court of Appeals in Brussels has ruled that Belgium must pay reparations to five women who were forcibly taken from their mothers and put in orphanages in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) when it was still a Belgian colony because they were victims of “systematic kidnapping” by state. The appellate judges thus overturned […]