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Military intervention in foreign countries always leads to unintended consequences. These often occur in neighbor countries of the original target. One example is the Vietnam war which lead to the destabilization of and military intervention in Laos and Cambodia. The … read more »
Economics IT IS a rite of passage for every new French president to head to French-speaking Africa and reaffirm faith in la Francophonie. So it was with François Hollande, who has just visited Senegal and the Democratic Republic of Congo. … read more »
By Lydia Alpizar Duran, trust.org West African Mali has a population of approximately 14.5 million concentrated primarily in the south. In the north, where some 1.5-2 million Malians reside, the provinces of Timbuktu, Kidal and Gao are a mosaic of … read more »
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Paul Roger, opendemocracy The conflict in Syria leaves western powers with no good choices, and their agony is intensified by Islamist advances in west Africa. The search for intelligent security rersponses goes on. The arrest of two people at London’s Heathrow … read more »
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By Alex Thurston, On Oct. 1, Niger launched its “Strategy for Development and Security” (SDS), a $2.5 billion, five-year initiative targeting six of the country’s eight regions. The project is part of Niger’s ongoing efforts to prevent the kind of … read more »
Martin Ewi, Senior Researcher, Transnational Threats and International Crime, ISS Pretoria As Malians and West Africans, as well as the international community at large, anxiously await the outcome of the meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Thursday, 4 … read more »
Jeremy H. Keenan The Tuareg are Berbers, not Arabs, and are the indigenous population of much of the Central Sahara and Sahel. Their population is estimated at 2-3 millions. Their largest numbers, some 800,000, live in Mali, followed by Niger, … read more »
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By: Magharebia By Adem Amine, Siham Ali and Jemal Oumar The American official made the remarks Sunday (September 30th) in Algiers at the end a regional tour that included previous stopovers in Nouakchott and Rabat. “We first need to re-establish … read more »
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By Jonathan Manthorpe, Vancouver Sun Northern Mali, captured by Muslim fundamentalists earlier this year, is rapidly becoming a new haven and headquarters for the al-Qaida terrorist network. Al-Qaida’s growing presence in the Sahel region stretching across West Africa from the … read more »
Washington – Terrorists killed the United States ambassador to Libya, but an ongoing investigation into the attack will have to determine which group was involved and whether it had links to al-Qaeda, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday. … read more »
The wider regional Islamist threat from the GSPC/AQIM appeared to be minimal in the past (except to Mali, Niger and Mauritania). This is no longer the case. Such movements are proliferating and reforming in ways that could seriously threaten security … read more »
the economist ATTACKS on Western diplomatic posts in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia have put the spotlight on Muslim extremists in north Africa. But farther south, in the Sahara desert, is where groups with ties to al-Qaeda have made most headway. … read more »
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Mali’s High Islamic Council has opened talks with the al-Qaida-linked Islamist militants who control the northern half of the country and are trying to impose a harsh interpretation of Sharia law. The president of Mali’s High Islamic Council, Imam Mahamoud … read more »
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Analysis Addis Abeba — Mali has until recently been regarded as one of the most politically stable countries in West Africa. However, since the fall of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi last year and the coup d’état on 22 … read more »
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ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday dismissed as “blackmail” a call on him by the suspected leader of Islamist group Boko Haram to resign and convert to Islam. Abubakar Shekau made the call in a video released … read more »
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Northern Mali promises to be the graveyard of scores of innocent people if African countries don’t collectively challenge Western influence in the region. Mali is fast becoming the Afghanistan of Africa. The tragic reality is that Mali – a large … read more »
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Mali’s interim president Dioncounda Traore returned to Bamako on Friday amid tight security. He stayed for two months in Paris for medical treatment after he was attacked by a mob in his office. “I forgive my attackers,” the 70-year-old said … read more »
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GAO, Mali: The armed Islamist groups who have occupied northern Mali, sharing out key towns, are all acting under the aegis of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), according to regional security sources. Northern Mali’s main cities and administrative regions, … read more »
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By Morgan Lorraine Roach On Thursday, the U.S. State Department designated three Nigerians as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT). Abubakar Shekau, Abubakar Adam Kambar, and Khalid al-Barnawi are leading members of the Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram. While the Obama … read more »
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These could pose a threat to Europe within two years, government and security sources believe. The al-Qaeda-linked rebels have pushed out secular Tuareg separatists, leaving them in exclusive control of the north. “If Islamists continue to control vast areas of … read more »
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Ouagadougou – Three European aid workers released in Mali after being kidnapped by an al-Qaeda-linked group were freed in exchange for three Islamists, a negotiator said as they headed home. The Islamist militant group, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad … read more »
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The top Ecowas mediator, Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaore, told the meeting of politicians, religious and trade union leaders that a new government must “confront the terrorist peril in the north”. Ecowas chairman Alassane Ouattara, the president of Cote d’Ivoire, … read more »
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Bamako – At least 35 people died in clashes this week between Islamists and Tuareg rebels in the north Mali town of Gao, according to a new toll released on Saturday by a medical source. “There were at least 35 … read more »
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Recent warnings in Washington about the influence and cooperation of Islamist movements in Africa should not fall on deaf ears. Speaking at a seminar of the Africa Center for Strategic studies in Washington last week, US Army Gen. Carter Ham … read more »
ISLAMISTS have claimed control of the key town of Gao in Mali’s occupied north after fierce clashes with Tuareg rebels left at least 20 people dead. The al-Qaeda offshoot Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) and Tuareg … read more »
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Three of Africa’s largest extremist groups are sharing funds and swapping explosives in what could signal a dangerous escalation of security threats on the continent, the commander of the U.S. military’s Africa Command said on Monday. General Carter Ham said … read more »
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Bamako – The Islamists occupying northern Mali on Wednesday gave a couple 100 lashes of a whip for having a child out of wedlock as they continue enforcing shari’ah law, witnesses told AFP. “At Sankore Square in Timbuktu, a man … read more »
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By Celeste Hicks While all eyes are on the ongoing political stalemate in Bamako, and the growing radicalism of groups such as Ansar Dine, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and MUJAO (Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa) in … read more »
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Only days after Tuareg rebels and Islamist fighters announced an alliance for a new Islamic state in northern Mali, the Tuareg rebels have backed away from the deal. An analyst says this latest move points to a dilemma the Tuaregs … read more »
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DAKAR – An extremist group in West Africa is reportedly threatening to kill a Spanish hostage seized in western Algeria last October. The group is believed to have split from al-Qaida’s North Africa branch last year with the aim of … read more »
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