Tax evasion benefits individuals to the detriment of society, wiping out state services. It also hampers the achievement of the eight United Nations millennium development goals (MDGs), which were designed to meet…
The countries of West Africa’s Sahel region have requested $56 million from the EU to help set up a multi-national force to take on Islamist militant groups across the vast, arid region. The…
At Baledogle, an old Soviet airport seventy miles northwest of Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, about thirty to forty U.S. operatives are managing an undercover drone operation. Somali commandos are also being trained at…
AFRICOM Commander General Thomas D. Waldhauser was in Brussels to meet with the European Union (EU) Chiefs of Defense (CHODs) and discuss the current state of affairs in a number of African…
Liberia’s Foreign Affairs Minister and Chairperson of the Council of Ministers of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Marjon Kamara, applauded the positive results the regional organization achieved in recent…
Moroccan supporters of Emanuel Macron’s En Marche! party (its official name is now La République en marche!) said they would not support the party’s candidate in the legislative election for the French…
Just ten conflicts accounted for more than 80 percent of the fatalities worldwide, according to this year’s IISS 2017 Armed Conflict Survey. Syria’s conflict, which is the subject of extensive media and…
West African nations, facing a growing threat from Islamist militants, are set to deploy a military force to augment the 15,000-strong UN peace-keeping force which, so far, has failed to deal…
The new Rumiyah justifies attacks against Christians and encourages ISIS supporters to get hold of guns where possible and lure victims for attacks via online ads. The latest edition of ISIS’s magazine offers…
The European Union says it’s ready to cooperate with African countries in stemming the illicit financial flows from the continent. This emerged during the debate at the fourth session of the Pan…
