As African countries meet tomorrow at an African Union summit in Kenya to better address terrorism on the continent, new evidence shows potential signs of the U.S. and U.N. designated terrorist group, Ansar Dine, in the small West African country of Togo.
On August 22, in the first of ten drug policy forums to be held around the country, Colombian Justice Minister Yesid Reyes expressed his belief that the nation must find "more efficient" policies than prohibition and imprisonment to deal with drug use. "The evaluation that should be made is how much has imprisonment affected the control of drug use and the answer seems to be that its impact is minimal," he said.
Middle East and North Africa
The New York Times’ reported that the United Arab Emirates and Egypt cooperated to execute airstrikes against Islamist fighters in Tripoli, Libya twice over the past several weeks. If this is true, it would be an unusual step in overt military tactics for two important recipients of U.S. military equipment.
As the United States prepares to end its combat mission in Afghanistan, U.S. officials are signaling a substantive shift in their Central Asia policy, suggesting that for the last few years the policy has been focused too heavily on security.
Honduras' former police chief, who was dismissed amidst allegations of involvement in death squads, has been working as the country's police attaché in Colombia, raising questions about his potential role in U.S.-funded trainings for security forces in Honduras.