You could forgive the French for feeling less than festive this holiday season. For almost a month now, railway workers have been on strike, bringing the nation’s transport network to a grinding halt. The protesters’ fury is focused on President...
The US is reportedly planning to institute a new special envoy position and task force to deal with security threats in the African Sahel region. The special envoy will lead a task force made up of State Department staff members,...
United States President Donald Trump made an 180-degree turn with his perspective of NATO during the annual NATO summit in London Dec. 3-4. As with many things involving US politics, transition from critic to fierce support lasted only briefly in...
For almost six years, Eastern Ukraine has known war. Locked in a seemingly unending cycle of conflict with separatist militias, Kiev’s battalions are battered and bruised – but still they fight on. A ceasefire was signed in 2015, but the ...
The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine met on Monday 9 December in Paris in a renewed effort to end the armed conflict that has been raging in Ukraine for the past five years. This was the first meeting...
Caught in a costly counter-terror quagmire, France’s Emmanuel Macron is calling for help in West Africa. For six years, his soldiers have toiled to tame rampant Islamic extremism in the Sahel. It has been a bloody struggle. Last month, thirteen...
Last month, French President Emmanuel Macron vetoed Albania’s and North Macedonia’s applications to join the EU. His reason for doing so is that the process for becoming an EU member state needs substantial reform. Macron is not opposed to these...
France seeks to strengthen the mutual assistance clause of the Treaty on the European Union. EU states that are not NATO member states should be protected if an attack occurred. Just one week ago, French President Emmanuel Macron called on...
One month after President Macron single-handedly blocked the opening of accession talks with northern Macedonia, France presented proposals for reforming the EU’s enlargement policy. In it, Paris calls for tightening up membership conditions and for making the accession process more...
Benin President, Patrice Talon, has announced that West African nations will withdraw their foreign reserves of the CFA franc from France. “We unanimously agree on this, to end this model,” he said. “The central banks of African countries of WAMU...
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