terror in Africa

Juan Carlos in Morocco to boost confidence-based relations

King Juan Carlos I of Spain started on Monday a four-day official visit to Morocco, the first in more than two years as his latest dates back to May 2011. Beyond the exceptional historical personal relations binding the two sovereigns, the visit of King Juan Carlos holds much symbolic and political significance and is seen […]

Resurgent terrorism haunts Algeria’s south

Algeria has for long marketed itself as a country that defeated terrorism as it wishes to attract tourists to its vast and underdeveloped south. But the slaughtering of a Swiss tourist in October and the kidnapping of a Spanish national a few days ago, along with the travel warnings by western countries show the dim […]

Senegal tasked with wooing military ruled Sahel states back into ECOWAS

West Africa’s economic bloc, ECOWAS, appointed Senegalese president Basirou Faye to intercede with Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger who said they left the grouping and formed a new confederation. Faye was asked at the ECOWAS’ 65th ordinary session to work together with Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbe to mediate and try to convince the three military […]