Tag Archives: West Africa
FBI agents have arrested two Alabama men accused of plotting to wage violent jihad in Africa. Mohammad Abdul Rahman Abukhdair, 25, and Randy Wilson, also known as Rasheed Wilson, 25, both U.S.citizens living in Mobile, were arrested Tuesday on terrorism charges. Prosecutors say they planned to travel to Mauritania, in West Africa, intending to prepare to engage in...
Tuareg and Islamist rebel groups which seized control of northern Mali in March are trying to find common ground for the joint administration of the territory. Residents of the region fear that individual and collective freedoms will not be respected if such an alliance sets up an Islamic state. Ansar Dine, which is linked to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb, and the National...
NIGERIA’S bilateral trade with The Netherlands may have assumed an upward profile, going by the figures reeled out in respect of imports and exports between the two countries, in the first quarter of this year. The Netherlands Ambassador to Nigeria and Permanent Representative to Economic Communities of West Africa States (ECOWAS), Bert Ronhaar, put the bilateral trade...
