Growing insecurity engendered by international terrorism and trafficking of all kinds in the Sahel Sahara area should not obscure an even more pernicious reality: that of a vast band of land nearly decimated by climate degradation. There is nowhere on this planet a place as bleak, or as damaged. The fauna, flora and the men are trapped in a climate tragedy.
“Established a few months ago in Nouakchott (Mauritania), the Center 4s has set itself a goal: to make sure that the Sahel Sahara will remain the actor of its own destiny, and not a concern or an additional source of instability for the international community.”
Interview of Ahmedou Ould Abdallah to Africa Drugs Blog on RFI :Former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for West Africa, Somalia and Burundi, Ahmedou Ould Abdallah now heads the Center 4 S (Center for Security Strategies in Sahel and Sahara) based in Nouakchott. For this good expert on West Africa and its mysteries, the fight against terrorism tends to obscure the importance of the drug trafficking. Even if he remains vague as for naming countries and culprits, the former diplomat denounced links between some heads of state in place and the networks of drugs.
The Centre4s is pleased to post the attached UN Security Council Statement on the situation in the Sahel Sahara region.
Indeed, in its form and substance,the Statement confirms the views and approaches of the Centre. It therefore encourages us to pursue, with our experts and partners, the work undertaken over the last few monthes.
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Written by Mehdi Taje, an expert at the Tunisian Institute for Strategic Studies (ITES), geopolitical specialist in prospection methodologies
