Brussels 19.03.2025 Rwanda’s reaction to the EU sanctions is swift and arrogant. The leadership severed diplomatic ties with Belgium, its former colonial ruler, and gave Belgian diplomats just 48 hours to leave. This week the EU Council imposed restrictive measures on nine individuals and one entity responsible for acts that constitute serious human rights violations…
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EU-Sudan: sanctions against six persons
Brussels 24.06.2024 The Council adopted restrictive measures today against six individuals responsible for activities undermining the stability and political transition of Sudan, where fighting is still ongoing between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their respective affiliated militias. (Image above: Khartoum Old town). On the RSF side, the new…
EU-Niger: “strong package of sanctions” in view
Toledo, Spain 31.08.2023 “…We will have a look at what is happening in the world, the Russian influence, the consequences of the war, and certainly focus on Niger and the Sahel”, said the EU top diplomat Josep Borrell, entering the assembly of the EU Foreign ministers. “And for that, we have here with us the…
Mali sanctions suspended
Brussels 25.03.2022 A top court ordered the suspension of sanctions imposed on Mali in January after the junta delayed elections. The court of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) on Thursday, March 24, gave the order against the sanctions.(Image: Assimi Goita,Interim President of Mali) La Cour de justice de l'UEMOA suspend les sanctions…
Mali ECOWAS lifts sanctions
Leaders of the West African regional bloc ECOWAS have lifted sanctions imposed on Mali following the August 18 coup d’état that ousted unpopular President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, the group said on October 6. West African leaders lift sanctions on Mali https://t.co/kNr3krXKaG — Reuters Africa (@ReutersAfrica) October 6, 2020 The crippling sanctions on landlocked Mali were…
Libya: speaker Aguila Saleh rise
Brussels 03.10.2020 Libya’s oil output has risen to 270,000 bpd as the OPEC member ramps up export activity following the easing of a blockade by eastern part of the country. On October 1 Libya’s oil terminals at Hariga, Brega, and Zueitina were open for business and welcoming tankers to ship oil, although the biggest port…
Mali: EU considers individual sanctions
The Council has transposed into legal acts the provisions of United Nations Security Council resolution 2374 (2017), which allows sanctions to be imposed on those actively stymieing progress in implementing the agreement on peace and reconciliation in Mali, signed in 2015. Today the EU Council implements UNSC Mali sanctions that may be imposed on actors impeding the peace…
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