From UN Security Council to Sahara Rail
Africanalysis11 Jun 2024

From UN Security Council to Sahara Rail

Somailia gets a UN Security Council seat. Rather unusual for a country that has a UN political assistance mission in place and an AU peacekeeping mission on the ground. Al Shabaab still able to do terrible damage.
Led by local showbiz personalities, Ghanaians take to the streets of the capital demanding an end to power outages. Sound familiar?
How about the most exciting train trip in Africa; The Desert Snake take one 700km across the Sahara Desert carrying iron ore to the Mauritanian port of Nouadhibou.

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