Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, chairman of the Sovereign Council and Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese army, Tuesday called for the withdrawal of the UN mission in Darfur. This is the latest in a series of statements by the Sudanese authorities demanding the departure of UNAMID. UNAMID, deployed since 2007, comprises more than 6,500 men, peacekeepers […]
Senegal’s navy has intercepted over three tons of cocaine from a ship moored off the coast in what is one of the country’s biggest drug hauls, as traffickers often exploit West African nations as transit points to transport cocaine from South America to Europe. “The patrol boat FOULADOU seized nearly 3 tons of pure cocaine […]
2016 was a remarkable year for Arrabita Mohammadia des Oulamas and for Morocco in its fight against terrorism and violent extremism. From launching an electronic platform called “Ra’ed “as an innovative means of isolating extreme forms of Islam, to the launch of series books titled “Islam and contemporary context “that aim to deconstruct extremism discourse, […]
