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 […]
The government is preparing to sell almost 60% of its bond in the next quarter. The decision is a U-turn on its strategy to cut long-term debt sales by 49% in expectations of the delayed IMF loan. The Finance Ministry will seek to sell 26billion pounds ($4.2 billion) in bonds maturing in 3years to 10years, […]
The United States and Türkiye have disrupted ISIS’s ability to finance its operations by designating four individuals and two entities of an ISIS financial facilitation network. The US Department of the Treasury said its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated critical nodes of a key financial facilitation network of the so-called Islamic State of […]
