The UN Chief has appointed China’s general Wang XiAojun at the helm of the UN mission in the Sahara, known as the MINURSO. UN Spokesperson Farhan Haq confirmed the news that Wang XiAojun will replace Pakistan’s Muhammad Tayyab Azam who ended his mandate on November 7, 2016. With a 40-year military experience in China and […]
French President Emmanuel Macron is reportedly planning a visit to Morocco in September to be centered on migration, media reports said. If confirmed, the visit, Macron’s second to Morocco since his election, will come at a context of a surge of illegal migration attempts from Morocco to Spain as migrants shun the Libyan route in […]
The newly-established G5-joint force, set up by Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger to combat terrorism and transnational organized crime and to promote stability and development in the region is gaining increasing support, given the challenges facing the restive region. While the European Union has already committed $56 million to the Sahel force, on […]
