The United States’ ambitions to de-risk its critical minerals from China’s supply chains may be complicated by Chinese control of cobalt and other resources from Africa, most notably the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a new study finds. The study, recently released by the London-based minerals research and pricing firm Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, found that […]
Morocco has exposed before the UN Committee of 24 (C-24) the selective and fallacious rhetoric used by Algeria to evade its historical and unequivocal responsibility in the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara. Morocco’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Majda Moutchou, exercising the right of reply during the regular session of the C-24, held […]
The United States has welcomed the adoption on Tuesday by the UN Security Council of Resolution 2468 that renews for six months the MINURSO mandate, and underlined the importance of reaching a “realistic, pragmatic, and sustainable solution” to the Sahara issue through negotiations. At the end of the vote on the resolution Tuesday, Rodney Hunter, […]
