Cmr, others launch journal on terrorism and drugs

Experts from ten countries in North and West Africa and France will launch a specialized electronic journal on "terrorism and organized crime".

Experts from 11 countries (Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, France, Morocco, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Tunisia) who met to discuss the "terrorism and drug trafficking" in this region, have decided to "create an information bulletin entitled + the letter of Nouakchott +".

This publication is intended to inform the public on "safety in general and terrorism in particular", according to the text.

"This review is a space for Exchange and reflection" and its distribution will be provided by the Direction of the Mauritanian security with the support of the regional internal security officer at the Embassy of France in Dakar”, it noted.

Among the experts, who have worked with colleagues from Spain, Italy and Germany, Alain Antil, researcher at the french Institute of international relations (Ifri), outlined the "connections" between jihadism and drug trafficking.

"Presumably, the risk around terrorist groups will settle permanently in the region," despite the intervention international Serval, initiated by the France in Mali from January 2013, which has "managed to weaken these groups", he said.

After a resurgence of jihadists groups in northern Mali since a few months, their actions of harassment are declining as a result of the operation launched by the force Bal, who succeeded 'Serval', completed in early November, the spokesman for the General staff of the French armed forces, colonel Gilles Jaron indicated.