Tunisia: 25 individuals, including lecturers & professors, arrested drug use

Tunisian security forces have rounded up 25 people, including lecturers and a military man, in the city of Monastir for consuming drugs at a birthday party, a spokesperson of the city court was quoted by the media as saying. Farid Ben Jha told local media ‘Mosaïque Fm’ Monday November 20 that security forces raided a […]

U.S. singles out Senegal for legal action for helping illegal migrants at borders with Mexico

Troy A. Miller, a senior official of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), has finger-pointed Senegal for housing “Pseudo-legitimate” travel agencies that allegedly propose illegal migrants visa-free travel to Europe and then to the US via Mexico, now used as transit by thousands to enter the American territory. Miller said travel agencies in Senegal’s capital […]

Polisario’s Involvement in Drug Trafficking Confirmed by Mauritanian Official

Predictions made years ago by many a pundit about the Tindouf-based separatists’ schemes to lay hand on the drug trafficking market in the Sahel-Sahara region have been confirmed once and again, and most recently by a Mauritanian official. Ahmadou Abdel Malek, the official spokesman in France of the Mauritanian ruling Union for the Republic, told […]