Tension is brewing between Khartoum and Cairo over the Halaib’s triangle disputed territory on the Red Sea after the long serving Sudanese President Omar Bashir renewed claims to the area threatening to bring the issue before the UN if negotiations with Egypt fail. The Sudanese government has recently renewed with the UN Security Council standing […]
Morocco remains the first market for US armament industry in North Africa, with sales amounting to $244 million in 2016. Moroccan media reports said that US weapons represent 96% of Moroccan weapon acquisitions in 2016 compared to 100% ($274 million) in 2015. Morocco, which earmarks 3% of its GDP to military expenditures, has an army […]
Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who is vowing a new hardline stance on migration, on Monday used his first foreign visit to Libya to demand an asylum reception centre in the North African nation to cut the flow of migrants into Europe. Salvini called for migrant centres to be set up in Africa as Rome […]
