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Burkina Faso Faces New Security Tensions Amid Coup Allegations
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SECURITY & DEFENSE
Sahel: French forces withdraw from Menaka base in northern Mali
French troops were on Monday handing back a military base in northeastern Mali ahead of a final withdrawal from the Sahel nation, France's army said, after nine years fighting a jihadist insurgency. The UN emissary there warned that the French withdrawal could leave...
Libya: New militia violence in Tripoli
Moroccan national captured by Russian forces while fighting in Ukraine
Sahel: Jihadists surround Mali town of Boni
Sahel: Mali launches military offensive to retake town of Anderamboukane from insurgents
Togo: Al-Qaeda affiliate JNIM claims May attack in Togo
Sahel: Six killed in attacks on Burkina security forces
Sahel: Three foreign nationals kidnapped in Mali
Mali withdraws from G5 Sahel security force
Libya: Violent clashes in west Tripoli
INSURGENCIES & TERRORISM
Sahel: Mystery about disappearance of civilians in Mali
Bamako, Dec 30, 2019 - Malian authorities and the United Nations have opened investigations into the alleged disappearance of more than 20 civilians in the war-torn West African country this month, security and government officials said Monday. There are few details...
Crisis in Sahel: France’s quagmire
The Sahel is experiencing utter destabilization. Almost all countries of the region, starting with Mali, then Niger, Chad, more recently Burkina Faso, and to a certain extent northern Nigeria, are falling apart and suffering from a series of factors that conspire to...
The cost of a civil war, tens of thousands of Libyans flee their homes
Tripoli, Dec 27, 2019 (By Nawas Al-Darraji) - Layla Mohammed barely had time to gather her children's belongings before fleeing their southern Tripoli home when shelling targeted the Libyan capital's outskirts earlier this year. For months she moved her family between...
Sahel: Roadside-bomb attacks kill four in Mali
Bamako, Dec 20, 2019 - Two soldiers and two civilians have been killed and another six people injured in separate roadside-bomb attacks this week in volatile central Mali, local government and security officials said on Friday. The two civilian victims were women...
Sahel: Boko Haram raids village in western Chad, kills scores
Africa: Herdsmen-Boko Haram clash in Nigeria, scores dead
Boko Haram jihadists gunned down 19 cattle herders Saturday in northeast Nigeria, civilian militia sources and residents told AFP on Sunday. Ethnic Fulani herders, besieged by a spate of armed attacks targeting their cattle, pursued Boko Haram, sparking a fierce...
Morocco arrests suspected insurgent
Libya: Warlord Khalifa Haftar promises onslaught on Tripoli
Sahel: Insurgents raid army camp in Tahoua, Niger, 17 casualties
Niamey, Dec 11, 2019 - Three soldiers and 14 attackers died in an assault earlier this week on an army camp in western Niger near the border with Mali, the defence minister said. Heavily armed "terrorists" in a dozen 4x4 vehicles led the attack early Monday morning on...
Libya: Civilians killed in air strikes on Tripoli, authorities say UAE drones used
Tripoli, Dec 2, 2019 - At least five civilians were killed and 10 wounded in overnight air strikes in a suburb of Libya's capital, the unity government's health ministry said on Monday. "Violent air raids on the residential area of al-Swani killed five civilians and...