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French National Assembly puts back on track judicial cooperation with Morocco

The French National Assembly adopted on Tuesday the protocol amending the Mutual Assistance Convention in criminal and legal matters signed between Morocco and France, signaling thereby the end of the diplomatic row that had lasted all through 2014 and putting back on track the two countries’ judicial and legal cooperation. The protocol, signed in February […]

Russia, NATO, and Crimea – Putin’s Reagan Gambit

On one side is the world’s most prominent political and military alliance, on the other a Russia actively looking beyond its borders into a Europe that has been a close partner for several years. However this is not the Cold War. At its fall the Soviet Union was struggling to compete in an arms race […]

Mauritania: MPs file complaint against former president Ould Abdel Aziz for defamation

Mauritanian Parliamentarians have filed a defamation suit against former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.   On April 15, in an interview with Jeune Afrique, former President Ould Abdel Aziz accused Parliament of having received a bribe of 300 million ouguiyas from the government, the equivalent of nearly 700,000 euros, to vote for the creation of […]