EU ambassador to Malawi Sandra Paesen

Belgium endorses Morocco’s autonomy plan

Belgium has described autonomy under Morocco’s sovereignty as the basis for a political solution to the Sahara issue. The announcement was made in a joint declaration signed by the two countries’ foreign ministers, marking a significant shift in Brussels’ position and signaling deeper bilateral cooperation. Aware of the centrality of the Sahara issue to Morocco, […]

Sahara: MINURSO’s new mandate to be extended by one year instead of six months

The mandate of the UN mission in the Sahara, MINURSO, will be extended by one year at the expiry of the current mandate this October 31 instead of six months. The one-year extension was proposed by the US and France. UN Security Council broke with its tradition of renewing the UN peacekeeping mission by one […]

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 […]