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Opioids · SahelCocaine, cannabis and opioids are getting easier to buy as criminal networks and armed groups capitalise on the fragile Sahel region’s “natural stopover point” to Europe on trafficking routes from South America, but authorities with help from the UN are taking down criminal networks and making a record number of seizures of illicit drugs.See the Story
Trafficking in the Sahel: Cracking down on illicit drugs
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Sahel · SahelBurkina Faso supports Morocco's project, backed by the United States, to provide an outlet to the Atlantic Ocean through a new route for Sahel countries in West Africa. This was expressed by Burkina Faso's Foreign Minister, Karamoko Jean-Marie Traoré, in an interview with his Moroccan counterpart, Nasser Bourita. The project includes establishing easy access routes to the future port of Dakhla, formerly Villa Cisneros, in the Sahara, which will …See the Story
Burkina Faso supports the Moroccan project to provide an outlet to the sea for Sahel countries.
100% Center coverage: 1 sources
NATO · SahelNATO is reassessing its strategy in the southern flank, with the possibility of missions for training and advisory roles in zones of North Africa, Sahel, and Middle East. Therefore, they commissioned an expert group to develop a report to decide their future approach. This is new to some as it responds, according to Andrea Chamorro, an analyst at the Alternatives Foundation, to the fact that Russian forces and Chinese influence are becoming more…See the Story
Russia and China advance in Africa while NATO considers training missions in the Sahel: “A quick and silent invasion”
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NATO · SahelNATO is preparing to discuss in the middle of this month the possibility of sending security and defence advisory missions to countries in the Middle East, North Africa and the Sahel, following the model it already has in Iraq.See the Story