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Libya’s Abnormal New Normal
By Arezki Daoud: Since 2011, Libya has been engulfed in a bloody civil war after the death of Muammar Gaddafi. Over the years, it was easy to identify the problem: too many foreign regional players and global powers meddling in Libya’s affairs, explicitly or...
SECURITY & DEFENSE
Egypt: Court sentences Libya’s Mohamed al-Mesmary to death over 2017 attack
Cairo, Nov 17, 2019 - An Egyptian military court sentenced a Libyan man to death and 32 other defendants to life over a deadly 2017 attack in the Western Desert, the army spokesman said Sunday. The incident took place in October 2017 when a deadly firefight broke out...
Libya: Europe urges release of kidnapped Libyan lawmaker
Tripoli, Nov 17, 2019 - Thirteen European diplomatic missions in Libya, including the EU delegation, demanded Sunday "urgent investigations" into the disappearance four months ago of a lawmaker and called for her immediate release. Siham Sergewa disappeared on July 17...
Sahel: Mali and French soldiers on the offensive in the Sahel
Bamako, Nov 11, 2019 - Mali is conducting a giant operation against jihadists in the country's troubled centre using both ground and air strikes and leading to the death of "several terrorists", the government said Monday. The move follows two recent jihadist attacks...
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...
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