Bourita Aguila Salah Issa

G5-sahel initiative garners increasing support

The newly-established G5-joint force, set up by Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger to combat terrorism and transnational organized crime and to promote stability and development in the region is gaining increasing support, given the challenges facing the restive region. While the European Union has already committed $56 million to the Sahel force, on […]

Tunisia: Security forces arrest two high profile terrorists

Two joint units of Tunisia’s counter-terrorism forces and the National Guard rounded up Tuesday December 5 in two separate operations two terrorists condemned to 10 years in prison each in absentia for belonging to terror groups, local media “Tunisie Numerique” reports. A joint patrol of the National Guard and counter-terrorism forces in the city of […]

Outrage in Senegal after Mauritanian Border Guards Kill Two Fishermen

A crisis is brewing between the two West African neighbors, Mauritania and Senegal. It all started after Mauritanian coast guards shot dead two Senegalese fishermen. The incident has propelled Senegal to deploy a warship in its sea borders with Mauritania. Senegalese voiced their outrage at the killing of the two fishermen with hundred protesters taking […]