By Robin Millard: Ten million children in west Africa’s central Sahel region are now in “extreme jeopardy” and desperately need humanitarian help due to worsening violence, the United Nations warned Friday. The number of children in dire need of aid in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger is twice as many as in 2020, the children’s […]
Turkey’s top diplomat will visit Egypt on Saturday as relations ease after a decade of strained ties, Cairo’s foreign ministry said. It follows a visit last month by Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry to Turkey in a show of solidarity after the devastating earthquake that claimed tens of thousands of lives in Turkey and neighbouring […]
More than two tonnes of natural uranium reported missing by the UN’s nuclear watchdog in war-scarred Libya have been found, a general in the country’s east said Thursday. General Khaled al-Mahjoub, commander of eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar’s communications division, said on his Facebook page that the containers of uranium had been recovered “barely five kilometres […]
By Barbara Debou: On a night in early March, arsonists attacked a brewery owned by the French drinks giant Castel in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. Hurling petrol bombs, they set fire to beer crates stacked inside the MOCAF brewery’s fortified storage yard. But this was not some random assault by firebugs. […]
By Shaun Tandon: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Niger on Thursday for a rare visit to a country seen as a bastion of support for Western military operations in a region where Russia is making inroads. Blinken is the first US official at this level to visit the former French colony, where […]
The European Parliament on Thursday decried Tunisian President Kais Saied’s “authoritarian drift” and called for the immediate release of a detained prominent journalist. Saied sacked the government and froze parliament in a 2021 power grab before imposing sweeping changes to the political system of the sole democracy to have emerged from the Arab Spring uprisings. […]
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) denounced Thursday the “abandon” of thousands of migrants expelled by Algeria into northern Niger and called on the West African bloc ECOWAS to intervene. Many of those expelled were struggling to find shelter in a region where temperatures can rise as high as 48 degrees Celsius (118 Fahrenheit), the aid group […]
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Jihadist-hit Niger last week killed about 30 members of the Boko Haram group and detained 960 followers, most of them women and children, who had fled neighbouring Nigeria, official sources said. State TV channel Tele Sahel said late Tuesday that on March 7 aerial surveillance spotted a “massive movement of people” along the Kamadougou Yoge […]
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Welcome to this week-in-review episode, for the period ending 10 March 2023, where we look at some of the key events affecting the geopolitics of North Africa and the Sahel. Your host is Arezki Daoud, principal analyst at MEA Risk LLC and editor of The North Africa Journal. In the Sahel, the general state of […]
