Senegal at the Center of Another Geopolitical Fight

Senegal at the Center of Another Geopolitical Fight

1322 issue: week ending 12 April 2024By Arezki Daoud: France is experiencing an unprecedented backlash in the Sahel and in West Africa.  Disastrous post-colonial policies forced the people of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso to expel French troops and diplomats, reducing...
Mali: Al Qaeda attacks rebel convoy in the Ouagadou forest

Mali: Al Qaeda attacks rebel convoy in the Ouagadou forest

1322 issue: week ending 12 April 2024By MondAfrique:  A column of armed vehicles from the Permanent Strategic Framework (CSP), the Touareg rebel coalition driven out of Kidal, was attacked by fighters from the Support Group for Islam and Muslims (GSIM) on Friday in...
Niger and Algeria recall their ambassadors over undocumented migrants

Niger and Algeria recall their ambassadors over undocumented migrants

1322 issue: week ending 12 April 2024The authorities in Niger summoned the Algerian ambassador Bekhadda Mehdi on 2 April, over Algeria’s treatment of undocumented migrants originating from Niger.  In return, two days later Algeria also summoned the ambassador of the...
Senegal: Disgraced President leaves office to find shelter in Marrakesh

Senegal: Disgraced President leaves office to find shelter in Marrakesh

1322 issue: week ending 12 April 2024By MondAfrique:  A short video circulating on social media shows outgoing Senegalese President Macky Sall’s departure for Morocco on April 2, the day of the inauguration of his rival Bassirou Diomaye Faye. Morocco officially...
Algeria: President announces early election, no one knows why

Algeria: President announces early election, no one knows why

1321 issue: week ending 22 March 2024Algerian President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, ordered the holding of an early presidential election on 7 September 2024, instead of the scheduled December date. The surprise announcement, which contradict the Algerian constitution that...

Brief: Tunisia: The Lazy Governors

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Senegal: Disgraced President leaves office to find shelter in Marrakesh

Africa’s 2024 Elections Off to a Bad Start

1319 issue: week ending 16 February 2024By Arezki Daoud: It’s an election year in Africa and it already started badly. The East African island of Comoros in the Indian Ocean opened the election cycle on 14 January, with autocratic figure Azali Assoumani “re-elected”...
Mali junta ends Algiers Agreement

Mali junta ends Algiers Agreement

The ruling junta in Mali announced, on Thursday 25 January, the “end, with immediate effect”, of the Algiers agreement signed in 2015 with the pro-autonomy and independence groups based in the north of the country. Long considered essential for stabilizing...
Niger and Mali up their anti-Western positions, lash out at France and US

Sahel: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger Announce Withdrawal from ECOWAS Bloc

In a significant development, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have decided to withdraw from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS, following a prolonged disagreement over ECOWAS’s rejection of military rule in West Africa. The Sahel nations,...

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