Essebsi & Shaath

Niger junta closes airspace as ECOWAS appears divided on military intervention

Niger’s coup leaders have closed the country’s airspace, thus further escalating regional tensions after the coup two weeks ago, but support for ECOWAS military intervention to reinstate ousted President Mohamed Bazoum seems to be waning, revealing differences of opinion among the 15 West African member states on how to proceed. Niger’s airspace has been closed […]

Macky Sall vows to preserve democracy as presidential elections near

Senegalese President Macky Sall has pledged not to transgress democracy amid heated debate about a possibility of a third term in office. “I’ve never answered that question in my country, and I’m not going to do it abroad,” Sall told Bloomberg on the sidelines of the Rotterdam conference on climate change, when asked about his […]

Morocco Reiterates Commitment to Cease-fire Agreement, Shows Restraint in Response to Polisario Provocations

Morocco’s Permanent Representative at the UN headquarters in New York, Ambassador Omar Hilale, reiterated the Kingdom’s commitment to the UN-brokered 1991 cease-fire agreement in response to the Polisario’s recent violation of the agreement in the area of Guerguarat and its provocations by threatening to resume armed hostilities on the backdrop of the security measures taken […]