{"id":2749,"date":"2020-12-07T09:47:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T09:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2020-12-07T09:47:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T09:47:56","slug":"updates-on-western-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2749","title":{"rendered":"Updates on Western Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a title=\"Mali will host a unit of Greek special forces: report\" href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2020\/11\/24\/greece-special-forces-to-mali\/\">Mali will host a unit of Greek special forces: report<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Greece will send a military unit to Mali to join French forces to carry out operations against jihadist terrorists in an operation seperate from the EU\u2019s missions. \u00a0Special Forces personnel will be added to the TAKUBA Operational Force (TF TAKUBA) formed by the French and 50 Estonians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2020\/11\/24\/greece-special-forces-to-mali\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\">British corporate plunder helped provoke the war in Western Sahara<\/h3>\n<p>On 13 November 2020, Morocco and the Western Saharan Polisario Front exchanged fire after a 29 year ceasefire. The Moroccan army entered Guerguerat to divert Saharawi peaceful protesters blocking Morocco\u2019s \u201cplunder corridor\u201d to Mauritania.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/democracyinafrica.org\/british-corporate-plunder-helped-provoke-the-war-in-western-sahara\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"js-no-orphans\">Exclusif \u2013 Emmanuel Macron\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Entre la France et l\u2019Afrique, ce doit \u00eatre une histoire d\u2019amour\u00a0\u00bb<\/h3>\n<p>Interview with the French President in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeuneafrique.com\/1076943\/politique\/exclusif-emmanuel-macron-entre-la-france-et-lafrique-ce-doit-etre-une-histoire-damour\/\">Jeune Afrique<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeuneafrique.com\/1076943\/politique\/exclusif-emmanuel-macron-entre-la-france-et-lafrique-ce-doit-etre-une-histoire-damour\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mali will host a unit of Greek special forces: report Greece will send a military unit to Mali to join French forces to carry out operations against jihadist terrorists in an operation seperate from the EU\u2019s missions. \u00a0Special Forces personnel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2749\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[252,942,72,191,943,67,941],"class_list":["post-2749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-resources","tag-france","tag-greece","tag-mali","tag-morocco","tag-special-forces","tag-west-africa","tag-western-sahara"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2750,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions\/2750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}