TERRORIST THREAT IN AFRICA: MOROCCO IS EVOLVING TOWARDS A “NEXUS BETWEEN TERRORISM-SEPARATISM-CRIMINALITY

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Yesterday Saturday in Malabo, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Living Abroad Mr. Nasser Bourita underlined that the terrorist threat in Africa is becoming more aggressive, with the appearance of new groups which are adapt to national and regional responses, to better target chaos and profit, noting that the ecosystem of terrorism is evolving, towards a “nexus affirms” between “terrorism/separatism/crime”.

Mr. Bourita, who represents HM King Mohammed VI at the Extraordinary Summit of the African Union (AU) on the fight against terrorism and unconstitutional changes of government in Africa, indicated that the 85 member states of the “Global Coalition for defeat Daesh”, gathered in Marrakech on May 11, recorded these changes, which the Dakar International Forum on Peace and Security, held in 2016, under the chairmanship of Mr. Macky Sall had anticipated.

Faced with this mutating threat, Morocco’s collective strength has never been so much a function of its individual vulnerabilities.

In this regard, the Minister pointed out that the Continent’s security indicators are turning red, one after the other, adding that this is a sign of the “mixed” operational assessment of the “AU Action Plan on the prevention and the fight against terrorism adopted in 2002.

Thus, he called for not neglecting any political or operational space, any source of national or regional tension and, above all, not leaving any country on the sidelines.

In this context, Mr. Bourita regretted Mali’s decision to withdraw from the G5-Sahel which is “very bad news to ponder”, expressing the wish that this brother country, whose commitment against terrorism we know, can quickly resume its place in “our collective response”.

On the other hand, the Moroccan minister welcomed Mauritania’s efforts in this direction, calling, once again, for truly strategic continental action against terrorism.

This, he insists, can only be conceived in a global and integrated approach combining security action, economic and social action and cultural action.

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