Washington in August froze $300 million military aid to Cairo after US intelligence intercepted a shipment of 30,000 grenades from North Korea to Egypt under an apparent secret deal violating international sanctions against the rogue state, reports suggest. The Trump administration unexpectedly put halt to the money citing the North African country’s poor human right […]
Morocco has recalled its ambassador to Nigeria for “consultations” on Tuesday, just few days after King Mohammed VI refused to have a phone conversation with outgoing Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. The new development shows that the diplomatic tension between the two countries is far from being over and that relations are not to improve anytime […]
The decision by Mauritanian authorities to seal off borders with Algeria as a military zone forbidden to civilians is the tree that hides the forest. The closing of the borders signals cracks in the Algerian-Mauritanian short-lived alliance. As Mauritania tilts towards its Sahel neighbors in their efforts to counter the terrorism scourge, it takes steps […]
