Omar Hilale

Morocco: Counterterrorism, struggle against crime & drug trafficking, international cooperation, main features of the DGSN’ 2023 report

Morocco’s Directorate of National Security (DGSN) is celebrating year’s end with the release of its annual report whose main features reflect the ceaseless efforts made in counterterrorism, struggle against crime and drug trafficking, and regional and international cooperation. The report reflects the intensified efforts deployed in coordination between all the DGSN units to fight all […]

Sudan’s Belated ‘Arab Spring’ – Is al-Bashir Finally Leaving?

It is often being said that events in the Arab World will inevitably find their way to the Sudan, though almost always belatedly. Now, some three years after the Arab Spring began to rattle the Maghreb region, demonstrations have filled the streets of Sudan’s capital Khartoum. What began as a protest against rising fuel prices […]

Cameroon’s Invisible People: The Baka’s Fight for Identity

Deep in Cameroon’s forests, a quiet crisis is unfolding. The Baka and Bagyieli, Indigenous communities who have called these woods home for generations, are facing an identity crisis that threatens to erase them from the map. Imagine living your whole life without a piece of paper that says you exist. That’s the reality for over […]