ISIL is not dead, it just moved to Africa

Illegal armed groups are opportunistic by nature. They usually start their operations and recruit followers in countries where there is poverty, corruption, religious conflict or ethnic strife, and where the security forces are unable to keep the public safe and illegal formations under control.

‘MINI SCHENGEN’: A BALKAN BREAKTHROUGH OR POLITICAL STUNT?

Can a plan to replicate the EU’s freedom of movement in the Balkans transform the region — or is it all about political posturing?

A week before the European Union dashed the EU hopes of Albania and North Macedonia back in October, the prime ministers of those countries met with Serbia’s president and unveiled a regional initiative that was quickly dubbed the “mini Schengen”.