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The moment of Somalia's truth has arrived. Farmaajo has crossed the Rubicon and declared all war against the Provisional Constitution, the principles of federalism and the exercise of democracy. He has enlisted Somalia in an axis of autocracy that now stretches across the Horn of Africa from the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea. And before the injury he inflicts becomes irreparable, he must be stopped. Sanctions are the last chance for the international community to prevent Somalia from falling back into civil war. There…

Café Cacao Council launched an offensive earlier this week in opposition to two large chocolate makers, accusing them of failing to pay a particular premium supposed to higher pay cocoa-producing farmers. Hershey is claimed to have undertaken to pay this premium. That is a bonus, the First rate Revenue Distinction (DRD), which…

The United States unilaterally blacklisted Libya's Kaniyat militia and its leaders on Wednesday after Russia last week prevented a UN Security Council committee from imposing sanctions on the group's human rights abuses. The US sanctions were introduced under the Global Magnitsky Act, which allows the US government to target human rights violators around the world by freezing assets and banning Americans from doing business with them. "Mohamed al-Kani and the Kaniyat militia have tortured and killed…

In an sudden choice a number of hours earlier than the US presidential election, President Donald Trump signed an official decree on Monday night time, November 2, extending for one more 12 months the sanctions towards Sudan, which have been positioned on the US blacklist of supporting nations. terrorism. Based on the White…

In an interview with the Financial Times published on Sunday, October 11, Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok struck his fist on the table. The head of government accuses the Americans of "paralyzing" the country's economy and keeping it on the blacklist of countries that support terrorism and even hamper its democratization. For the Sudanese Prime Minister, to keep his country on US blacklist is unfair. Not only because it is more than 20 years since Osama bin Laden was expelled from the country - it was the fact…

The Economic Community of West African States has taken note of the appointment of some of the transitional bodies in Mali. The sub-regional organization decided to lift the economic and trade sanctions that weighed on the country. A decision hailed in the capital's markets. as reported from Bamako, The stalls and stalls in the Badalabougou market are not very full. Not because customers flocked to the products, but because merchants still suffer from a lack of supply due to sanctions issued by the Economic Community…

West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS lifted sanctions on Mali on Tuesday after the prime minister introduced the remainder of the transitional authorities positions nearly two months after a navy coup. In a communication, the regional heads of state cited "significant progress" in the direction of a return to democracy in Mali and…

This is the end of the embargo that has weighed on Mali since the coup on August 18 against President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. The Community of West African States has therefore announced that the sanctions will be lifted. as reported from Bamako, The statement by the Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Mali was published this Tuesday, October 6, at the end of the morning. The declaration is signed by the Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo, who is currently…

Since Thursday, the Malian junta has published the transition charter. And the document takes into account a significant demand from ECOWAS to lift the sanctions. The embargo against the country could therefore soon be lifted while the malians become impatient. as reported from Bamako, Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, President of the ECOWAS Commission, made a trip on Sunday that could be crucial for the abolition or not of sanctions. He arrived in particular in Accra to meet with the Head of State of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo,…

Appointed Prime Minister of Mali on Sunday 27 September, Moctar Ouane has two immediate goals. The first is the formation of a government of national unity with even hope of seeing the participation of representatives of the armed groups involved in the peace process. The second is to achieve, with the support of the interim president, Ba N'Daw, the lifting of the embargo imposed by the West African Economic Community (ECOWAS) on Mali. To lift the embargo against Mali, the phone works a lot these days between Accra and…