A l’approche des scrutins présidentiel et législatif du 22 novembre, les autorités ont renforcé leur dispositif sécuritaire, tandis que certains partis font appel à des milices. Sur la route cabossée qui mène à Djibo, à
Port-Soudan, l’avant-poste militaire de la Russie en Afrique
STRATÉGIE. Moscou va construire une base militaire sur la mer Rouge, une première depuis l’effondrement de l’Union soviétique. L’affaire a été rondement menée, avant d’être officiellement confirmée. La Russie prévoit la création au Soudan d’une
Les réfugiés fuyant l’Éthiopie racontent les combats au Tigré
Fuyant la guerre au Tigré, de plus en plus d’Éthiopiens se réfugient au Soudan voisin. Depuis un peu plus d’une semaine, près de 30 000 réfugiés sont arrivés au Soudan, selon le UNHCR. Ils racontent
Financing Boko Haram
There has long been speculation about how Boko Haram and other terrorist organizations are funded. Some funding clearly comes [PDF] from criminal activity, with kidnapping particularly lucrative, and from bank robberies. Presumably, protection rackets also
More than 1,000 killed in South Sudan communal conflicts in 6 months: UN
Violence has increased throughout South Sudan over the past six months, with more than 1,000 killings nationwide, the United Nations mission in South Sudan said on Tuesday.
Morocco PM says Western Sahara wall at centre of dispute completed
Morocco has finished building a sand barrier in a U.N.-monitored buffer zone in Western Sahara, Prime Minister Saad Eddine El Otmani told Reuters on Tuesday, after the Polisario Front independence movement withdrew from a ceasefire.
US hits East Africa’s al-Qaida affiliate with new sanctions
The Trump administration is slapping new sanctions on Somalia’s al-Shabab extremist group, an al-Qaida-linked organization responsible for multiple terrorist attacks in East Africa. The State Department announced it had imposed sanctions on two senior leaders
Five dead, many wounded in suicide bomb attack in Somalia
Suicide bomber detonates explosives at a Mogadishu restaurant frequented by dozens, in the latest al-Shabab-claimed attack. At least five people have been killed in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, after a suicide bomber blew himself up in
Ethiopian troops push for regional capital, rebels promise ‘hell’
Ethiopia predicted swift victory but northern rebels promised them “hell” on Wednesday in a two-week war threatening the vast nation’s unity and further destabilising the Horn of Africa. The war has killed hundreds, sent 30,000
Mali: Mise en œuvre du CNT : Colonel Assimi Goïta tient la serrure dormante !
Le Conseil national de transition, lourdement retardé pour des raisons confuses, espiègles et d’ordre stratégique, est le dernier organe transitoire qui balisera le terrain dans la suite de la mise en œuvre de la feuille
