Map for issue 1289F

This week’s Critical Incidents Map | Courtesy MEA Risk LLC [week ending 9 June...
Mali resumes train service on Bamako-Kayes lineF

Mali resumes train service on Bamako-Kayes lineF

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Sweden eager to get NATO bases even before membershipF

Sweden, whose NATO membership bid is currently blocked, is ready to welcome temporary NATO bases on its soil even before it is a full member, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Friday. “The government has decided that the military can undertake preparations...
Mali: Attack in Tombouctou claims life of UN peacekeeperF

Mali: Attack in Tombouctou claims life of UN peacekeeperF

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African space tech? Don’t rule it out, says Nigeria’s startup kingF

African space tech? Don’t rule it out, says Nigeria’s startup kingF

By Joseph Boyle: Iyinoluwa Aboyeji might not have the personal wealth of Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg, but his level of success as an African entrepreneur bears comparison with any Silicon Valley tech titan. While still in his twenties, the Nigerian co-founded two...

Nigeria grapples with end of fuel subsidyF

By Alexandre Martins Lopes: Nigerians are struggling with surging fuel prices after newly elected President Bola Tinubu declared an end to popular subsidies, a move analysts and experts said was long overdue. On his first day in office, Tinubu kept to his campaign...

Nigeria: Bandits raid six villages in north, kill 30 civiliansF

Armed men killed 30 people in weekend raids on six villages in Nigeria’s north, a region regularly hit by criminal violence and clashes between communities, local police have said. The bloodshed is the latest outbreak of inter-communal violence which the...

Turkish Airlines set for major fleet expansionF

The chairman of Turkish Airlines said Monday that the company will make a final decision on plans for a record-breaking order of 600 aircraft in two months. The airline is in talks with US aircraft maker Boeing and its European rival Airbus to purchase 400...

Nigeria: ISWAP ambushes army unit, kills several soldiersF

Several Nigerian soldiers died in an attack on a military convoy in the Lake Chad region by jihadist fighters aligned with the Islamic State group, security forces said Tuesday.Β  The convoy was hit by militants from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP)...

Nigeria: Cash-strapped Boko Haram kidnaps herders for ransomF

Boko Haram jihadists have kidnapped 30 ethnic Fulani herders near northeast Nigeria’s Lake Chad, demanding ransom for their release, fishermen and the head of an anti-jihadist militia told AFP Tuesday. The militants in eight boats stormed the fishing and herding...
Sudan: Sexual violence is widespread in war-torn SudanF

Sudan: Sexual violence is widespread in war-torn SudanF

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Turkish currency continues to lose value vs. US dollarF

Arezki’s Take @arezkid#1Country1Minute: #Turkey voted #Erdogan for another term, #investors hate it ♬ original sound – Arezki By Fulya Ozerkan: The Turkish lira sank to a new low against the dollar on Wednesday, more than a week after the re-election of...
Chad: Army and FNDJT fighters clashing in Tibesti regionF

Chad: Army and FNDJT fighters clashing in Tibesti regionF

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Sahel: Over 16 million people need aid in Burkina Faso, Mali and NigerF

Sahel: Over 16 million people need aid in Burkina Faso, Mali and NigerF

More than 16 million people affected by conflict and climate change in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger need humanitarian aid, according to an NGO report published on Monday. This represents a 172 percent rise on 2016, the US International Rescue Committee said in its...
Egyptian policeman clashes with Israeli soldiers, kills threeF

Egyptian policeman clashes with Israeli soldiers, kills threeF

Three Israeli soldiers and a member of Egypt’s security forces were killed Saturday in a rare exchange of fire near the border between the two countries, official sources from both sides said. The Israeli army said an Egyptian assailant shot dead two soldiers...
Libya uses drones to attack smugglers in west of the countryF

Libya uses drones to attack smugglers in west of the countryF

Forces of Libya’s Tripoli-based government launched drone strikes against suspected smuggling sites in the country’s west Friday as they pursued a campaign begun over a week ago, local media reported. “Strikes targeted Zuwara” some 120...
Jailed Egypt songwriter on hunger strike refuses waterF

Jailed Egypt songwriter on hunger strike refuses waterF

Dissident Egyptian songwriter and poet Galal al-Behairy, who has been on hunger strike for three months in protest at his prison conditions, stopped taking water Thursday, a rights group said. Behairy, who began his hunger strike in March after five years in custody,...
Egypt: Sandstorm brings down billboard in Cairo, kills oneF

Egypt: Sandstorm brings down billboard in Cairo, kills oneF

One person was killed and five others were injured Thursday when a billboard collapsed in a major thoroughfare as a result of a sandstorm that swept through Egypt’s capital, state media reported. The storm “crushed” four vehicles on the October 6...