Colonialism, post-colonialism and Western Sahara: rebuilding Africa's fractured geographies

Introduction: beyond colonial cartographies The coloniality of power and the fragmentation of the Sahara Sovereignty as a historical relationship, not a colonial invention The poetics of resistance: liberation as narrative Feminist and ecological...

UN expert commends Government for addressing migration challenges and urges end to collective expulsions: Mauritania

OHCHR NOUAKCHOTT – A UN expert today urged the Government of Mauritania to step up implementation of its legal commitments on the protection of migrants and better align practices in the country with international human rights standards. “I...

1978 Swiss Diplomatic Letter Exposes Algeria’s Conspiracy Against Morocco

Marrakech – A confidential Swiss diplomatic letter dated January 30, 1978, shatters any illusion that Algeria’s involvement in the Western Sahara conflict was “principled” or “humanitarian.” From the Swiss Embassy in Rabat to the Swiss Federal...

Post-Coloniality and Western Sahara: Stitching Back Together Africa’s Broken Geographies

The incompleteness of decolonization is not only a matter of borders, flags, and treaties. It is also, and above all, a matter of imagination: who tells the story, who defines belonging, and who controls the symbolic cartographies of space. As the...

Liberian Ambassador Meets Foreign Affairs Minister, Highlights Strong Ties with The Gambia

By: Yunus S. Saliu The newly appointed Ambassador of Liberia to The Gambia, His Excellency Ambassador Ali Sylla, on Thursday, submitted a copy of his diplomatic credentials to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Serign Modou Njie, marking a...

Solar-to-X enables industrial defossilization turning power to molecules or materials

The industry sector is most challenging to defossilize, due to high energy and feedstock demand, large and continuously running production plants, hard-to-abate process emissions, and infrastructural challenges. In public discourse, hydrogen is...

Mauritania: Fisheries’ energy hurdles, IRENA urges renewables

The fisheries sector in Mauritania is crucial to the country’s economy, but access to reliable and affordable energy is one of the key constraints limiting the growth of this sector. A new report identifies policy and regulatory bottlenecks,...

JNIM Economic Warfare: Africa File, September 11, 2025

To receive the weekly Africa File or triweekly Congo War Security Review via email, please subscribe here. Follow CTP on X, LinkedIn, and BlueSky. Key Takeaways: Mali. Al Qaeda’s Sahelian affiliate has begun forcibly enforcing its blockade on...

Morocco's Energy Minister Calls for ESG African Framework in Mining Sector

Tuesday 9 September 2025 Morocco's Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development Leila Benali called on Monday in Nouakchott for an African framework in the mining sector that integrates environmental, social, and governance (ESG)...

Morocco Urges Sustainable, Transparent Mining Practices in Africa

Rabat – Moroccan Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, Leila Benali, spoke today in Nouakchott about the need to implement an African mining framework (ESG) that integrates governance as well as environmental and social...

Mali launches airstrikes in response to militant-imposed fuel blockade

In Mali, the military has launched airstrikes in the gold-rich Kayes region after al-Qaeda-linked militants moved to block fuel imports into the capital, Bamako. The group, Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, or JNIM, announced a blockade last...

Interior Minister Discusses ID Card Issuance Abroad

By Kebba AF Touray The Interior Minister, Abdoulie Sanyang, addressed lawmakers on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, outlining the government’s approach to issuing national ID cards for citizens abroad and measures to tackle reckless driving on the...

Mali army carries out airstrikes after militants announce blockade on fuel imports

BAMAKO/DAKAR (Reuters) -Mali’s military said it had carried out airstrikes in the gold-rich western region of Kayes after al Qaeda-linked militants took steps to impose a blockade on fuel imports to the landlocked West African country’s capital,...

De Mistura identifies Morocco and Algeria as the main actors in the Western Sahara conflict

Staffan de Mistura, special envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) for Western Sahara, has identified Morocco and Algeria as the main actors involved in the ongoing conflict over the sovereignty of Western Sahara. In an...

Jihadists Mount Roadblocks, Burn Buses In Mali, Hijack Goods At Borders

Armed jihadists have tightened their grip on southern and western Mali, mounting deadly roadblocks near the borders with Senegal and Mauritania where the country relies heavily on imported goods. Since early September, fighters linked to Al-Qaeda...

Morocco first African nation to punch 2026 World Cup ticket, group races tighten

- Advertisement - Morocco became the first African team to qualify for the Fifa World Cup 2026 as across the continent, matchday seven of the qualifiers have been completed in most groups, leaving three fixtures still to play. The Atlas Lions...

MPs Question Interior Minister Over Controversial Overseas ID Scheme

During the oral question session, Hon. Assan Touray, Member for Bakau, standing in for the Honourable Member for Lower Badibu challenged the Minister to explain why ID issuance had been prioritised in countries such as Mauritania, Gabon, and Togo,...

Jihadist blockades disrupt trade, travel in landlocked Mali

Jihadists have set up roadblocks in the south and west of landlocked Mali near the borders with Senegal and Mauritania where vital goods are imported daily. Mali has battled a security crisis for over a decade fuelled by violence by groups...

2026 World Cup: Senegal in a stunning performance, Tuesday’s results in Africa (video)

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp In the Group B clash, Senegal completely defeated the Democratic Republic of Congo (3-2). The top of Group C, the match between top-ranked South Africa and Nigeria, ended in a 1-1 draw. Finally, Egypt was held to...

Police arrest 19 for murder after ‘50 migrants accused of witchcraft are thrown overboard’ on way to Spain’s Canary Islands

POLICE in Spain have arrested 19 alleged people smugglers accused of torturing and murdering up to 50 would-be migrants on board a small boat heading from Africa’s impoverished western coast to the Canary Islands. The ramshackle wooden vessel –...