Victor Angelo

Europe adrift in the sea of migrations Victor Ângelo   A meeting of the European Union's ministers of foreign affairs and internal...

Following what I wrote yesterday about the national armies in some of the Sahelian countries – that their low operational capacity is one...

The poor people in the Sahelian countries are now facing three major menaces to their survival: terrorism, covid-19, and hunger. All thre...

We are witnessing the emergence of a new campaign against Iran that includes “information” about that country’s growing presence in West ...

We don’t write about Guinea-Bissau. T is never in the news. It’s one of those lost lands, somewhere in the map of Africa. Some better-inf...

Another link on the Sahel security situation: https://africacenter.org/spotlight/the-complex-and-growing-threat-of-militant-islamist-grou...

https://www.securityconference.de/en/media-library/munich-security-conference-2019/video/parallel-panel-discussion-security-in-the-sahel-tr...

When I scrutinise the foreign policies of permanent members of the UN Security Council I find no real differences, when it comes to the p...

Following Yahya Jammeh´s tragic volte-face, who has now changed his views on last week´s presidential elections and declared he will not a...

Still on Gambia´s presidential elections, I owe a word of great recognition to the chairman of country´s Independent Electoral Commission,...

I spent about five years in The Gambia, from 1989 to 1994. I had an excellent relationship with the national authorities in Banjul and als...

After a discussion this morning with a Malian friend, who is a former senior UN official, what I retained can be easily summarised in a fe...

Another day, another terrorist attack. This time the target is an international hotel in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. In the ...

Burkina Faso is one of the better educated countries in West Africa. And its population is young and dynamic. There is in addition a good ...

Guinea-Bissau is again on the rocks. Last night the President decided to fire the government. This was an unjustified decision – and drama...

So far, so good! That´s the happy comment one can make tonight regarding the presidential elections in Nigeria. The process might have had...

One of the forgotten countries is Guinea-Bissau, in West Africa. It has been in and out of crisis for the last seventeen years or so. Furt...

Burkina Faso is a fascinating country in the Sahel. Its people are very dynamic. Many citizens, particularly the urban youth, are very wel...

The collective hysteria around Ebola is such that some people are already talking about the possibility of “enemy forces” being engaged in...

I wrote my bi-weekly column to the Portuguese magazine Visão this morning. Everybody is writing about Ebola these days. I also did. It is ...