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Somalia offers U.S. exclusive access to key ports and airbases amid rising tensions

Somalia has extended an offer to the United States for exclusive control over strategic airbases and ports in the Gulf of Aden, thus adding a new geopolitical twist to great-power competition in the Horn of Africa. In a letter from president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to U.S. president Donald Trump, Somalia proposed granting the U.S. operational […]

Deserting “captain” of the polisario rallies his motherland, Morocco

A young officer from the Polisario front decided on Monday, March 18, to rally the motherland. A Polisario rebel executive, claiming to be a captain, acting as deputy commandant of a “Katiba” (battalion) of the so-called Gendarmerie of the separatist front, showed up this Monday morning at the defense line in the area of Farcia […]

Morocco Elected Chair of Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee

Morocco has been elected last week, in the person of its Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Mohamed Loulichki, chair of the Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee. Morocco, which is non-permanent member of the Security Council since January 2012, will chair the committee for the period ending December 31, 2013. The Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC), set up […]