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Mali: Wagner and Junta leaders in tough spot with series of embarrassing defeats and decisions to make
(Photo from unconfirmed video showing an insurgent burning the presidential plane in Bamako. The person filming the attack speaks in Peul or Fulani language) By Arezki Daoud: This week’s attacks on the Malian capital of Bamako highlight the junta's difficulty in...
SECURITY & DEFENSE
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 to fight jihadists in the Lake Chad region and the Sahel, will no longer take part in military operations outside national borders. "Our troops have...
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 the Lake Chad border region in which 52 troops and 1,000 jihadists were killed. Army spokesman Colonel Azem Bermendoa Agouna told AFP that the...
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 economic hub and shuttered its capital, in the continent's latest effort to brake the juggernaut of coronavirus. Businesses were closed, markets abandoned...
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 authorities more powers as they respond to an attack by Boko Haram jihadists that killed nearly 100 soldiers earlier this week. In the Lake Chad region where...
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 in the North African country where civil war has badly degraded the public healthcare system. Libya has been mired in chaos since the 2011 overthrow...
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 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,...
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 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...
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 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...
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 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...
Libya: Troops of warlord Khalifa Haftar kill civilians in Tripoli
Tripoli, March 19, 2020 (AFP) - Libya's unity government said Thursday that five women were killed and five civilians wounded in Tripoli the previous day in bombardment by the forces of eastern-based military strongman Khalifa Haftar. Amine Al-Hachemi, spokesman for...
INSURGENCIES & TERRORISM
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