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Libya’s Path to Stability: Still Blocked by Fragmentation and Armed Rivalries
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Sahel: Surging Jihadist Violence Batters the Sahel, Exposing Government Weakness
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Sahel: Africom says it lost drone in Niger due to technical failure
Niamey, May 7, 2020 - The US military in Niger said Thursday they had lost a second drone in two months, both through...
Libya: EU begins Operation IRINI to enforce Libya arms embargo
Rome, May 7, 2020 - The European Union has launched a delayed naval mission to enforce an arms embargo on Libya, the...
Algeria: Government braces for intensification of Hirak after pandemic ($)
Egypt intensifies attacks on insurgents after killing of soldiers
Cairo, May 3, 2020 - Egypt's interior ministry said Sunday 18 suspected militants were killed in North Sinai in a...
Libya: After his forces suffered major losses, warlord Haftar wants a truce ($)
Egypt: Al-Sisi orders three-month renewal of state of emergency
Cairo, April 28, 2020 - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Tuesday ordered the renewal for three months of a...
Sahel: Chad abolishes death penalty for terrorism
Chad on Tuesday abolished the death penalty for terrorist activities, Justice Minister Djimet Arabi told AFP. Chad had...
Week-in-review podcast: Lockdowns, curfews and government abuse
This is a retrospect on North Africa and the Sahel region, for the week ending 24 April. The review, which focuses on...
Sahel: Gunmen attack villages in Mali’s Mopti region, kill dozen civilians
Bamako, April 23, 2020 - At least twelve people have been killed in an attack on several villages in central Mali, a...
Sahel: After Chad captured 58 Boko Haram suspects, 44 die mysteriously
By Ali Abba Kaya, Djimet Wiche, and Camille Malplat in Libreville: The deaths by apparent poisoning of 44 suspected...
Sahel: Tense election runoff in Mali
Acts of intimidation and allegations of vote buying marred the final round of legislative elections in Mali on Sunday...
Egypt: Insurgents strike in Cairo, killing one soldier and wounding others
Cairo, April 14, 2020 - An Egyptian policeman was killed and three others wounded in a shootout Tuesday with armed...
Libya: Warlord Khalifa Haftar unleashes terror on Tripoli population
Tripoli, April 14, 2020 - The forces of Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar rained rockets on the capital Tripoli...
Egypt: Policeman killed in shoot out with militants in Cairo
Cairo, April 14, 2020 - An Egyptian policeman was killed and another wounded in a shootout Tuesday with armed...
Algeria: Clan warfare inside military command rages, turmoil in intel agencies (s)
One of the most hated Generals in the Algerian military high command, General Bouazza Wassini, has been dismissed and...
Setback in fight against Boko Haram: Chad to withdraw from regional force
N'Djamena, April 10, 2020 - Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno has said his country's troops, who have been deployed...
Sahel: Intense fighting in Lake Chad, dozens killed in Chad-Boko Haram conflict
N'Djamena, April 9, 2020 - The Chadian army said Thursday it had wound up an offensive against Boko Haram jihadists in...
Africa: How to lock down a 20-million-people city?
Lagos, March 31, 2020 - Roads in Africa's largest city Lagos were deserted Tuesday after Nigeria locked down its...
Sahel: Chad announces new measures to confront Boko Haram in Lake area
N'Djamena, March 27, 2020 (AFP) - Chad has declared two departments near Lake Chad a "war zone", giving local...
Libya now fighting two wars: a civil war and Covid-19
Tripoli, March 25, 2020 - Libya has reported its first case of the novel coronavirus, a particular source of concern...
Sahel: Massacre in Chad
N'Djamena, March 24, 2020 - Ninety-two Chadian soldiers have been killed in the deadliest attack ever by Bok o Haram...
Sahel: More insurgent attacks across the Sahel
March 25, 2020 - Two soldiers in Mali and three civilians in Burkina Faso died in suspected jihadist attacks in the...
Sahel: The Norwegians want nothing to do with the crisis in Mali, and they are right!
Opinion by Arezki Daoud: Unlike their Swedish neighbors, the Norwegian people told France that they will not send...
Covid-19: Morocco deploys troops on the streets
Rabat, March 22, 2020 - Groups of Moroccans went out to pray and to protest in the streets at the weekend, defying...
Libya: Troops of warlord Khalifa Haftar kill civilians in Tripoli
Despite global health crisis, Arab regimes continue to repress
March 18, 2020 - Egyptian police arrested four prominent women dissidents Wednesday after they demanded the release of...
Sahel: Niger hits Boko Haram hard, kills dozens of insurgents
Sahel: Swedish soldiers headed to Mali in yet another French operation
Egypt: Six suspected insurgents killed in Sinai
Sahel: Couple kidnapped in Burkina Faso in 2018 regains freedom
Sahel: The forced depopulation of central Mali
Sahel: Africom commander speaks of ineffective European strategy in the Sahel
Sahel: More killings in Mali
Bamako, March 11, 2020 - Unidentified gunmen killed 10 people and burned down a village in central Mali, local...
Sahel: US appoints new Sahel representative
Sahel: US mulling more engagement in the Sahel
Egypt executes insurgent leader Hisham Ashmawy
Sahel: Central Mali riven by communal violence
Algeria: Soldier and insurgent killed in clash in Tafassour
Egypt: Dozens sentenced to death in Egypt over terror attacks
