MAURITANIA SLAVERY

Algeria lets migrants die after an accident near Niger borders

Algerian authorities have left migrants die crammed in a bus after an accident near Niger where Algerian army intended to abandon them in the desert. Images on social media showed a torched bus, corpses and injured migrants as a convoy of 82 buses was carrying hundreds of migrants southwards. The migrants who died were buried […]

Sahara: UN Security Council starts closed-door briefings & consultations

The UN Security Council holds this Wednesday in New York a closed-door meeting on the MINURSO, whose mandate expires on October 31. Ahead of the mandate renewal, Council members will be briefed by Head of MINURSO Alexander Ivanko on the UN Mission activities, the situation on the ground and Polisario provocations. Ivanko’s briefing comes following […]

Morocco-France partnership to address security challenges at international and regional levels reviewed in Rabat

partnership between Morocco and France to address security challenges at international and regional levels was revewed at a meeting in Rabat Thursday between Abdellatif Hammouchi, Director General of National Security and Territorial Surveillance, and his French counterpart Céline Berthon. During their meeting, marking a new stage in Moroccan-French security cooperation, Hammouchi and Berthon discussed counterterrorism, […]