Terrorism has become a global threat, and its globalisation imposes again, information exchange and combination of efforts.Benjamin Stora has stated in 2005 that “Islamism evolved in a multiparty system characterising the Moroccan political landscape”. This explains to...

Algiers hosted a regional conference about cooperation in combating terrorism and other transnational crimes, but Morocco didn’t participate, despite its will. This shows once more that the political clock between Morocco and Algeria is still frozen, and...

Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, 84, reaffirmed his intention to run for a third term during a grand ceremony held on Friday in the capital Dakar to mark his 10th anniversary in power.“I am going to run for...

Togo’s Constitutional Court on Thursday confirmed the re-election of outgoing President Faure Gnassingbe with 60.88 percent of the vote cast. The court made the confirmation after the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) published the provisional results showing...

Representatives from seven North African and Sahelian states convened in Algiers on Tuesday  the 16th March to discuss the growing threat of al Qaeda’s North African affiliate in the region. Government delegates from Algeria, Burkina Faso, Chad,...

The Nigerian National Assembly on Thursday the 18th March ordered the country’s government to investigate Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s statement over recent violence in northern Nigeria. Gaddafi suggested on Tuesday that Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, can...

The South African Human Rights Commission has criticized the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) after failing to get information for the development of an early warning system meant to prevent attacks on foreign nationals. Commission chairman Lawrence Mushwana...

The risk of transforming the Sahel region in instability and a sanctuary for jihadists may lead to Western intervention under the guise of combating terrorism.    Reaching this conclusion has created the need for a summit by the...

Sahel foreign ministers have concluded to bring together their chiefs in charge of terrorism and their armed forces chiefs of staffs to meet in April 2010. It is the most concrete decision reached, calling these two groups...

It’s shameful we slaughter basic truth on the altar of pride, sentiments and excuses, voiced a Nigerian citizen when asked if Nigeria is a failed state. His answer was “that’s the mistake of 1914″, referring to the...