Senegal, Türkiye ink event-driven diplomacy MoU

Senegal and Turkey signed an event-driven diplomacy Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote events between the two countries. Aïssata Tall Sall, top diplomat of the African country inked the deal with his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on the sidelines of Dakar International Forum on Peace and Security in Africa held on October 24-25. Per the […]

FAO warns of escalating desert locust threat across North Africa, the Sahel

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has issued a stark warning that desert locust swarms are expected to intensify across Libya and North Africa throughout June and July, posing a growing threat to food security in the region. The swarms, which are already forming in parts of Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria, are anticipated to move […]

EU and France to Dispatch More Forces to CAR

First Paris and then Brussels announced last Friday (14 February) that they would boost their peace-keeping forces in the strife-torn Central African Republic. Following a meeting of the national Defence Council at the Elysée Palace, France announced it would deploy 400 more soldiers and gendarmes, bringing its total forces in its former colony to 2,000. […]