Burkina Faso junta leader warns AES armies ready to fight and ‘teach’ ECOWAS ‘lesson’

“They taught us a lesson, but they will also learn,” Burkina Faso’s junta leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has warned the regional bloc ECOWAS of a possible armed conflict amid escalating tensions, stressing that the united armies of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) are prepared to take on the ECOWAS forces that had been touted […]

Record numbers of illegal African migrants reach Spain’s Canary Islands

Almost 1,500 African migrants have reached Spain’s Canary Islands over the past weekend only, prompting an urgent €50 million aid package from the Spanish government along with a pledge to organize their prompt transfer to the mainland. The record influx of African migrants arriving at the shores of the Canary Islands via various precarious vessels […]

Belgium’s Parliament Endorses Security Cooperation with Morocco

The Belgian parliament Thursday passed a bill endorsing security cooperation between Belgium and Morocco in the wake of Brussels attacks after it surfaced that Morocco helped Belgian authorities foil an IS attack against nuclear facilities in the country planned part of the Brussels terror acts. The bill also came in the wake of an agreement […]