Drug trafficking continues to thrive in the Sahel, home to 300 million people and a buyer’s market for guns, because of non-state armed groups which are very active there, according to a new 2023 report published Monday June 26 by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The report explores the fight against […]
Tunisia’s anti-terrorism judicial center issued a committal warrant Tuesday against a young man from the Sahel region for threatening to assassinate President Kais Saied in Facebook posts. The young man, whose identity has not been revealed, reportedly confessed to having written and disseminated the offending statutes on his Facebook account. The incident comes amid […]
The Francophonie summit wrapped up in Tunisia’s Djerba with Morocco sending a senior director from the foreign ministry instead of ministers as it did in previous editions. Morocco was represented by Nadia El Hnot, Director of Cultural Cooperation at the foreign ministry. The low Moroccan enthusiasm for the Francophonie summit is a symptom of the […]
