Why Sahara should be dropped from UN’s fourth committee agenda

Maintaining the Sahara issue on the decolonization agenda of the Fourth Committee of the UN General Assembly is an anomaly that runs against the UN charter and the mandate of the Security Council. Listing the Sahara issue on the decolonization agenda is an aberration that is contradicted with Article 12 of the UN charter which […]

BRICS summit: focus on expansion plans and building mutual financial system

The leaders of the BRICS countries meeting at its three-day summit in Johannesburg have reportedly agreed on a roadmap for how to allow new states to join their group of emerging economies. “We have agreed on the matter of expansion,” South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said and added that further details would be provided […]

Ten soldiers killed, Fifty wounded in Burkina Faso army base attack

At least 10 soldiers died and around 50 were wounded in Burkina Faso on Monday (24 October) in an assault on an army base and other strategic installations in the northern city of Djibo. The “terrorist attack” hit the 14th regiment at a military base and “other strategic installations in the town“, which has been […]