Local media reported on a draft resolution abolishing the Baath Vanguard and the Revolutionary Youth Union organizations. The reports said that the draft resolution should receive approval at any moment, indicating that the resolution responds to political changes reducing the ruling Baath party’s dominance under the latest constitutional amendment.
Paris – Les chefs d’Etat du G5 Sahel devaient s’entretenir vendredi avec Emmanuel Macron, alors que la France n’a encore donné aucun détail sur la réduction de ses forces militaires dans la région, où les groupes jihadistes restent toujours aussi menaçants.
Le nouveau président nigérien Mohamed Bazoum est arrivé vendredi matin à Paris pour une visite bilatérale. Ses homologues tchadien, malien, burkinabè et mauritanien étaient pour leur part réunis en visio-conférence pour un sommet du G5, avant qu’Emmanuel Macron ne se joigne à eux.
Lors du dernier sommet de Berlin, la communauté internationale a exigé que les quelque 20 000 mercenaires présents sur le territoire libyen quittent le pays. Mais qui sont ces combattants, d’où viennent-ils, qui les finance ?
Près de 400 milliards d’euros. C’est le montant de la dette publique extérieure des pays d’Afrique subsaharienne. Chine, Banque mondiale, Club de Paris, créanciers privés… Auprès de qui l’Afrique est-elle endettée ? La réponse, pays par pays, en infographies.
The two-decade war in Afghanistan has given U.S. spies a perch for keeping tabs on terrorist groups that might once again use the beleaguered nation to plan attacks against the U.S. homeland. But that will end soon.
The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan is leaving intelligence agencies scrambling for other ways to monitor and stop terrorists. They’ll have to depend more on technology and their allies in the Afghan government — even as it faces an increasingly uncertain future once U.S. and NATO forces depart.
Nearly 3.4 million Syrians are at risk of losing access to humanitarian aid facilitated through UN Security Council Resolution 2533, expiring on July 10.
The Security Council will vote today on two resolutions to extend Syria’s cross-border aid, after deliberations over the number of approved border crossings, time frames, and potential vetoes.
Kepala Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Terorisme (BNPT) Komjen Pol Boy Rafli Amar mengungkapkan tantangan utama penanggulangan terorisme di masa pandemi Covid-19 kini muncul di media internet.
The COVID-19 pandemic is still surging in many parts of the world, due primarily to slow vaccination rates and the spread of virulent variants.
Espionage, particularly human intelligence (HUMINT), has been forced to adapt to a host of significant changes induced by the pandemic.
The 1697 Treaty of Ryswick legalized French control over the western third of the island of Hispaniola – a Spanish asset – under the name of Saint-Domingue. The colony proved to be a valuable spigot of wealth. In 1789, Saint-Domingue supplied two-thirds of the overseas trade of France and was the greatest individual market for the European slave trade. It was a bigger source of income for its owners than the whole of Britain’s 13 North American colonies combined. The labour of half-a-million slaves propped up the dazzling opulence of the French commercial bourgeoisie, and formed the hidden foundations of cities like Bordeaux, Nantes and Marseille. In August 1791, after two years of the French Revolution and its ripple effects in Saint-Domingue, the slaves revolted.
Majoritatea trupelor Marii Britanii din Afganistan au fost retrase, a declarat joi premierul Boris Johnson, punând capăt participării Londrei la conflictul de două decenii din această ţară, pe fondul temerilor că plecarea soldaţilor străini ar putea duce la un război civil haotic, relatează Reuters. Autorităţile afgane au desfăşurat mii de soldaţi pentru a contracara o vastă ofensivă a talibanilor în nordul ţării.