India and five central Asian countries, on March 7, expressed their shared belief that Afghanistan should not be a base for terrorist activities. During the first meeting of the India-Central Asia joint working group on Afghanistan in New Delhi, the participants discussed regional threats of terrorism, extremism, radicalisation, and drug trafficking. The country representative of the World Food Programme in …
Mali’s military government has been strengthening its relationship with Russia as anti-French sentiments peak in Bamako. Mali expects Russia to send shipments of fuel, fertiliser and food worth around $100 million to Mali in the coming weeks, the West African country’s economy minister, Alousseini Sanou, says. Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed providing the supplies with his Malian counterpart in August, …
