North Africa, south Europe close ranks on security - by Noiselle Champagne
States from southern Europe and north Africa agreed on Thursday to share intelligence and work together to fight terrorism, drug-trafficking and illegal migration in the Western Mediterranean. Ministers of the 10-nation Western Mediterranean interior ministers' conference (CIMO) held cooperation talks in the west Saharan state of Mauritania, where al Qaeda gunmen have killed French tourists and local soldiers in the last six months. In recent years, the Islamic republic straddling Arab and black Africa has also become a transit point for thousands of illegal migrants, and drug shipments, headed for Europe.
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