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C24 in Saint Lucia: Resounding Support for Morocco’s Autonomy Plan

The Morocco-proposed autonomy plan was strongly supported as the only solution to the regional dispute over the Sahara during the regional seminar of the Committee of 24 (C24) of the United Nations for the Caribbean, held in Castries, Saint Lucia, this May 11 to 13. During this seminar, several countries representing the different regions of […]

Niger’s oil exports under threat as FPL rebels warn of more attacks on China-funded pipeline

Niger’s oil exports are under threat, as armed rebels have warned of more attacks on the pipeline designed to carry oil to neighboring Benin, prompting a Chinese state-owned petroleum company to recently suspend all construction at the Agadem oilfield in eastern Niger. Recent months have seen a series of attacks by the Patriotic Liberation Front […]

Three sanction-hit west African countries seek re-entry to AU and ECOWAS

Foreign ministers from Burkina Faso, Guinea and Mali, all of which recently underwent military coups, have called for their reinstatement into the African Union (AU) and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) following a trip to the region by Russian envoy Sergey Lavrov. The top diplomats from the three west African countries said in […]