Foreign Affairs Committee delegation in Laayioun

Senegal adopts national Strategy against illegal migration

Senegal adopted Thursday July 27 a national strategy to curb illegal migration (SNLMI). The strategy is made of five pillars namely prevention, border management, repression and return and rehabilitation of migrants, Interior Minister Antoine Félix Diome indicated. The prevention will encompass employment of youth and financing of youth initiatives. The repression will hunt down traffickers […]

EU supports Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s candidacy to World Trade Organization

The European Union has chosen its candidate to the helm of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The EU ambassador in Geneva has officially announced this choice on Tuesday, October 27.   Nigeria’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Finance and former number two at the World Bank Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala would […]

Morocco among recipients of Raytheon’s AMRAAM Missiles

Morocco is on a list of twenty-two of the United States’ allies that will be delivered Raytheon’s Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM). The major US defense contractor, Raytheon, said in a Press release that the US Air Force, Navy and 22 foreign allies tapped the company with a $768 million contract for its AMRAAM. […]