Security & Defense Bound

N'Djamena, March 24, 2020 - Ninety-two Chadian soldiers have been killed in the deadliest attack ever by Bok o Haram jihadists on armed forces in the country, President Idriss Deby Itno said Tuesday. The attack is part of an expanding jihadist campaign in the vast,...

March 25, 2020 - Two soldiers in Mali and three civilians in Burkina Faso died in suspected jihadist attacks in the Sahel on Tuesday, a day after Islamist rebels killed scores of troops in Chad, security sources said. The two soldiers were killed and three others were...

Opinion by Arezki Daoud:  Unlike their Swedish neighbors, the Norwegian people told France that they will not send more troops to Mali. And the Norwegians are right. The Sahel does not need more troops, it needs a political solution first that will then be worth...

Rabat, March 22, 2020 - Groups of Moroccans went out to pray and to protest in the streets at the weekend, defying orders to stay at home to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus. Images shared on social networks and broadcast by local media showed people...