In a significant blow to international drug trafficking, police in Guinea-Bissau have seized 2.6 tons of cocaine from a plane arriving from Venezuela. The operation, conducted at Bissau’s Osvaldo Vieira International Airport, resulted in the arrest of five crew members from various Latin American countries. This large-scale seizure underscores West Africa’s growing role as a […]
Following a recent string of military coups, retaliatory sanctions, and withdrawal of its member states, it became clear that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) lacks authority, legitimacy, and effective sanction and intervention instruments, and thus, as observers warn, it must either reform or decline. Once considered Africa’s most institutionally developed regional organization, […]
Moroccan state-owned OCP Group and Italian SACE group have agreed to a €365 million green financing facility, the first of its kind under OCP’s Green Finance Framework and the first guaranteed by SACE Push Strategy in Morocco. This strategic partnership reinforces OCP’s commitment to sustainability and innovation in plant nutrition solutions. SACE, Italy’s insurance and […]
