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Africa’s Defense Shifting from Western to Russian InfluenceF

By Arezki Daooud: A lot of military-related events are taking place in the Sahel and other parts of Africa. First, a quick update on US troop withdrawal from Niger. US defense officials are saying the pullout is happening as scheduled and apparently without any...

Niger: Rebel group attacks pipeline, warns Chinese contractor to stay clearF

By MondAfrique: The Patriotic Front of Liberation (FPL), a rebel group based between northern Niger and southern Libya, claims to have destroyed a section of Niger’s pipeline, a move that it qualified as “a first warning to the Niamey junta", in a statement released...

Burkina Faso Junta Faces Governance Challenges Amid Controversies and RumorsF

Recently, there were shooting incidents in Ouagadougou and the absence of junta chief Captain Traore was interpreted as the end of his reign, only to show up recently to donate blood. Continue here.

Sahel: French company Orano loses operating license of key uranium site in NigerF

This followed months of demands for the project’s resumption, which had been stalled. Orano plans to contest this decision legally. Despite Orano's minimization of the impact, the mine holds significant uranium reserves. This action is seen within the context of...

Niger: More Russian Weapons and Military Instructors Land in NiameyF

The departure of the French and American troops from Niger created an opportunity for the Russians to replace them. The Russians’ objective is to clearly counter the west and reduce its influence in the Sahel, West Africa and elsewhere on the African continent. The...

Senegal at the Center of Another Geopolitical FightF

By 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 Paris' entrenched but...

Mali: In the absence of institutional security in Kidal, the Tuaregs are in chargeF

On a sandy street in a northern Malian town, armed guards take turns at a checkpoint next to two unmarked pickup trucks as dusk falls and the sky slowly fills with stars. The men are not army troops but fighters from the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) -- a...

Sahel: 50 migrants rescued in Niger desertF

A total of 50 West African migrants, including women and children, were rescued in the desert in northern Niger near the Libyan border, the United Nations said Tuesday. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said the migrants were "vulnerable and in...

Sahel: Burkina Faso defense chief fired as the destabilization of Burkina Faso continuesF

Burkina Faso junta chief Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who took power in a January coup, has sacked his defence minister and assumed the role himself after a series of jihadist attacks, according to decrees published Monday. The first decree, read on...

Sahel: Attack on army unit in Deou, Burkina Faso claims two troops and JihadistsF

Two soldiers died and a dozen "terrorists" were killed on Monday during an attack against a military detachment in Burkina Faso's jihadist-hit north, the army said. The landlocked African state is in the grip of a seven-year-old insurgency that has claimed more than...

Sahel: Mali ratchets up communications on military offensive against insurgentsF

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