Parlement européen

Maurirtania: President Ould Abdel Aziz Denies any Attempt to Stay in Power

The Mauritanian leader last week indicated he never planned to change the constitution to be able to run again for elections at the end of his current mandate coming to end in 2019. Tension has risen since March between the opposition and the ruling party after some ministers and lawmakers suggested constitutional amendments so that […]

Cameroon: Anglophone crisis affects over 4 million – UN

A report released by a United Nations body, OCHA, on Tuesday said over four million Cameroonians are suffering the consequences of the long-running conflict in the country’s North-West and South-West since late 2017. Activists in the country’s Anglophone western regions are protesting their forced assimilation into the dominant Francophone society. They argue that this process […]

Enlistment of child soldiers by Polisario, Algeria brought up before European Parliament

The phenomenon of the enlistment of child soldiers by the Polisario under the supervision of the Algerian army, which was denounced by international organizations including the UN, was brought up before the European Parliament.   A group of MEPs addressed a question on the issue to the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign […]