Day: July 3, 2022

Multiple Crises Threatening Stability and Development in Sahel

The World Food Program warns conflict, climate change, COVID-19, and skyrocketing prices of food, fuel, and fertilizer are further threatening stability and development prospects in Africa’s Sahel region.WFP warns a wave of hunger and suffering is swee…

Spain, Mali FMs speak after row over NATO remarks

BAMAKO— Mali’s Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop said he had spoken with his Spanish counterpart after a row over comments the Spaniard made about the possibility of a NATO operation in the Africancountry.Diop wrote in a tweet that he had spoken by phone…

West African Summit; Coup-hit Neighbors on Agenda

West African leaders attended a summit Sunday as their regional bloc pursues its efforts to resolve the political impasse in the coup-hit nations of Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea.A summit last month of the Economic Community of West African States put …