The United Nations Security Council on Thursday (April 25th) is expected to authorise nearly 13,000 peacekeepers for Mali, Journal du Mali reported. French and African forces…
Moroccan diplomatic common sense RABAT – Annual US-Morocco war games, cancelled by Rabat over a Washington-backed plan for the UN’s Western Sahara mission, have resumed on…
UNITED NATIONS, April 22 — The politics of this year’s renewal of the Western Sahara UN mission MINURSO is complicated by an unexpected factor:Rwanda’s understandable mistrust…
Posted By Colum Lynch The United States has abandoned an initiative to authorize a U.N. peacekeeping mission to monitor and report on human rights abuses in Western…
By Saad Guerraoui – CASABLANCA, Morocco Thousands of Moroccans are venting their anger on social networks at the US-backed plan to broaden the mandate of UN…
The United States has withdrawn a demand that the United Nations start human rights investigations in disputed Western Sahara following furious lobbying by Morocco, diplomats said…
Arab militants captured a village near Mali’s desert city of Timbuktu on Sunday, sources told AFP, as ethnic Tuareg rebels massed in a show of strength…
Kablia says Algiers is not party to Western Sahara conflict, noting Algeria-Morocco border is pressing issue that could be resolved soon. Middle East Online Kablia: Recent…