AFRICA DIPLOMATIC

Sudan Humanitarian Conference

Brussels 12.04.2024 The EU top diplomat Josep Borrell and Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič will travel to Paris on April 15 to participate in the ‘International Humanitarian Conference for Sudan and its Neighbours’, co-organised by the European Union, France and Germany. The event marks one year since the outbreak of the armed conflict, which…

ASPIDES: operation updates

Brussels 08.04.2024 Today the EU top diplomat Josep Borrell held a press conference together with the EUNAVFOR ASPIDES Operation Commander Rear Admiral Vasileios Gryparis to provide an update about activities to restore maritime security and freedom of navigation in the Red Sea. Since its launch on 19 February, Operation ASPIDES successfully acted to mitigate the…

EU-Sudan: arrest warrant for Hamdok is “source of concern”

Brussels 05.04.2024 Today the EU diplomacy announced they “took note” of the arrest warrants for the leadership of Tagadum including that of ex-Prime Minister of Sudan – Hamdok. “It is a source of concern in a moment when Sudan needs a political solution for that war that devastated the country for more than a year”…

Houthis continue random attacks

Brussels 30.03.2024 Yemen’s Houthis informed they have made six attacks on vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in the past three days. According to a statement published on the Houthi-controlled Saba news agency, the trade vessels targeted include Maersk Saratoga, APL Detroit and Huang Pu, which are either US or UK…

Senegal: Bassirou Diomaye Faye leading candidate

Brussels 25.03.2024 Early results from Sunday’s presidential elections in Senegal indicate opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye,44, is in the lead, prompting his supporters to celebrate on the streets of the capital Dakar hoping the new administration will address widespread poverty and corruption. The governing coalition’s candidate, former Prime Minister Amadou Ba, on Monday, March 25,…

SA threatens for joining IDF

Brussels 24.03.2024 South Africa threatens to arrest its citizens who engage in service for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), while raising legal, moral and strategic questions for a military that relies heavily on foreign-born troops to fill its ranks. Although no other nation has an intention to follow South Africa’s lead and prosecute their citizens,…

Red Sea: Maersk company doesn’t resume navigation

Brussels 24.03.2024 Shipping company Maersk said it was too early to resume navigation through the Red Sea due to a continued elevated risk level, despite an initiative by the European Union to increase safety in the region. The disruption also led to a 1.3% drop in global trade in December of last year, and uncertainty…

Senegal: EU welcomes elections

Brussels 08.03.2024 “The decisions of the Constitutional Council and the Presidency of the Republic set the date of the presidential election before the end of the President’s mandate on April 2, and establish the legal framework for the continuity of the State beyond this date. They thus end a period of uncertainty while demonstrating the…

EU condemns Houthi attack on “True Confidence”

Brussels 08.03.2024 The European Union strongly condemns attack on the Barbados-flagged and Liberian-owned bulk carrier ‘True Confidence’ while transiting the Gulf of Aden, resulting in reported tragic losses of life and multiple injuries among crew members, reads the statement by the Spokesperson on Houthis deadly attack against a vessel in the Gulf of Aden. “This…

EOM: Liberia elections final report

Brussels 05.03.2024 Announcing today the release of the final report of the 2023 EU Election Observation Mission (EOM) to Liberia, its Chief Observer Andreas Schieder, Member of the European Parliament, said: “These were the first general elections since the departure of UNMIL solely organised by the Liberian institutions and they marked an important milestone in…