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Mali: UN withdraws troops adding more instability to the region
UN peacekeepers in Mali announced Monday their pullout has started from two camps in the tense Kidal region, opening a new phase in a forced withdrawal igniting fears fighting will intensify between troops and armed actors. The UN stabilisation mission known as...
SECURITY & DEFENSE
Algeria: Regime commits more human rights abuses, prepares to militarize the state
By Arezki Daoud - 12 November 2019 - An Algerian court handed over one-year jail terms to 28 demonstrators for the "crime" of carrying the Amazigh flag. The court's argument to justify its abusive sentences was that those sentenced were "undermining national unity."...
Mali in a state of chaos
MALI IN CHAOSMopti, Mali, Nov 5, 2019 - By Celia Lebur - Untroubled by time, the mighty Niger River glides through the Sahel city as women wash their clothes in its brackish waters and cows slumber nearby in the heat. But this peaceful image is an illusion, for Mopti,...
Libya: New reports of Russian mercenaries in Libya
Russia on Thursday denied US media reports that it had sent mercenaries from private military group Wagner to fight in Libya. The New York Times reported Tuesday that some 200 Russian fighters from Wagner had arrived in Libya over the last six weeks including snipers....
Tension over Ethiopian dam on the Nile River
Ethiopia's construction of a massive power dam on the Blue Nile is raising tensions with Egypt, which depends on the river for 90 percent of its water supply. As the neighbours and Sudan meet in Washington Wednesday for mediated talks on the potential conflict...
Sahel: France claims it killed second most wanted Jihadi and member of GSIM
France on Tuesday announced the death of a top jihadist leader in Mali as it sought to reassure the West African nation of European support in the fight against militant bloodshed. French troops killed Moroccan Ali Maychou of the Group to Support Islam and Muslims...
Sahel: French Defense Minister admits crisis in Mali is “difficult,” wants more Europeans troops
France's defence minister said Tuesday she was "optimistic" European forces would step up to bolster the fight against militancy in Mali, as the country reels from a devastating jihadist attack that killed dozens of soldiers. Mali's military is struggling to contain...
Sahel: Massacre in Mali’s Menaka region
A "terrorist attack" on a military post in strife-torn northeastern Mali has left 49 soldiers dead, the army said Saturday, revising downward an earlier death toll. The assault on Friday at Indelimane, in the Menaka region, close to the border with Niger, was one of...
Sahel: Insurgents attack police station in Burkina Faso, kill officer
Ouagadougou, Nov 1, 2019 - A police commissioner was killed during a brutal assault by gunmen on a police station in northwestern Burkina Faso, security sources said Friday. It marks the latest deadly attack in the troubled north of the West African country, which is...
Tunisia: National security advisor to the president submits resignation after dismissal of Defense Minister
Admiral Kamel Akrout, the first national security advisor to the Tunisian president resigned on Tuesday, October 29, 2019. Sources say Kamel Akrout has not yet received a response to his resignation letter, presented on the day of the dismissal of Defense Minister...
Tunisia: Wanted female insurgent captured by authorities in Kairouan
The Tunisian security services arrested on 29 October in Kairouan, a woman sentenced in absentia to 6 years in prison, in a case linking her to terrorism. The suspect was the subject of a court warrant.
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