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By Alemayehu G Mariam In December 2011, I wrote a commentary entitled, “Ethiopia: Land of Blood or Land of Corruption?” contrasting two portraits of Ethiopia. At the time, the portrait painted by Transparency International (TI) (Corruption Index) and Global Financial Integrity (GFI) … read more »
Posted in Alemayehu G. Mariam, Article, Columnist, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Gunmen have stormed the compound of a Lebanese construction company in northern Nigeria, killing a guard and kidnapping seven foreign workers. Those abducted include a Briton, an Italian, a Greek and four Lebanese. The kidnapping ranks as the biggest of … read more »
Leaders from the al-Qaeda-affliate Al Shabaab in Somalia on Friday reported that they killed a Kenyan soldier who they captured during one of the terrorist group’s cross-border raids. The capture and execution of the Kenyan is similar to a previous … read more »
The strategic Horn of Africa country is one-third Muslim and two-thirds Christian; why is its state-TV ginning up religious tension? By William Davison, csmonitor Ethiopia, a US ally in the battle against Al Qaeda-affiliated militants in Somalia, added to mounting … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Al Ahbash, Al-Qaeda, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islam, latest ethiopian news, Muslim, news ethiopia, Somalia
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(Reuters) – Canada is unlikely to commit troops to the French-led campaign against Islamist rebels in Mali because it is threatening to become a counter-insurgency operation similar to those in Iraq and Afghanistan, Foreign Minister John Baird said on Tuesday. … read more »
(Reuters) – Few in Nigeria’s second city of Kano would admit to supporting the Islamist insurgents waging a bloody northern rebellion against the central government in Abuja. But when Boko Haram talks of sweeping away the corrupt old order and … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, bokoharam, GoodluckJonathan, Ibrahim Shekarau, Islam, Kano, Kano Emirate, Nigeria, Nigerian, Nigerian soccer
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Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab insurgents have returned to Twitter with a new account, less than two weeks since they were suspended after posting photographs of a French commando they had killed. “For what it’s worth, shooting the messenger and suppressing … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Somali
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Tagged African Union, Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, English language, Ethiopian National Defense Force, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica Sports, Kenya, somali news, Somalia, Twitter
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Stephen Brown George Orwell’s famous statement that some pigs are more equal than others can also be applied to al-Qaeda today. The premiere Islamist terrorist organization that all others try to emulate has always prided itself on welcoming equally as … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article, Mali, Mauritania, North Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, AQIM, Arab, Fowler, George Orwell, IndepthAfrica, Mali, Mauritania, Robert Fowler
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By Craig Whitlock, The U.S. military was closely tracking a one-eyed bandit across the Sahara in 2003 when it confronted a hard choice that is still reverberating a decade later. Should it try to kill or capture the target, an … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article, North Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Algeria, Belmokhtar, Craig Whitlock, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, Sahara, United States
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Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group has opened a new Twitter account in English, less than two weeks after its previous account was suspended. A senior al-Shabab official told the BBC that the new account was genuine. Al-Shabab’s previous English-language account was … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Somali
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, Al-Shabab, bbc, English language, Foreign hostages in Somalia, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, somali news, Somalia, Twitter
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Reuters – The Security Council should consider lifting an arms embargo on Somalia to help rebuild the country’s security forces and consolidate military gains against al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon suggested in a report Friday. The council … read more »
Repercussions of Algerian gas field attack Al-Qaeda linked extremists carried out a deadly attack against the Algerian Amenas gas filed on 16 January. Reportedly, the strike was conducted in retaliation for the military intervention France has initiated in its former … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article, Mali, North Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Algeria, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, Middle East, NATO, North Africa, Pakistan
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In Mali, the French have been the margin between civilization and barbarism. Reading accounts of France’s struggles to deploy a few thousand troops to its former colony of Mali, we found ourselves wondering: Whatever happened to the French Foreign Legion? … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, France, IndepthAfrica, Kidal, Mali, Niger, Sahel, Timbuktu
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By Ramzy Baroud The British security firm G4S is set to rake in massive profits thanks to crises in Mali, Libya and Algeria. Recognized as the world’s biggest security firm, the group’s brand plummeted during the London Olympics last year … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Algeria, Economic Community of West African States, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica Magazine, Libya, Mali, President of France, West Africa
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Jeremy Keenan On 12 October 2012, the UN Security Council voted unanimously in favour of a French-drafted resolution asking Mali’s government to draw up plans for a military mission to re-establish control over the northern part of Mali, an area … read more »
By: Robyn Dixon Los Angeles Times SEVARE, MALI—Priceless ancient manuscripts put to the torch. Desperate residents paid to snitch on neighbours for violations of a puritanical strain of Islam. Whippings, beatings and amputations meted out to those who disobeyed. French-led … read more »
AFP – Hundreds of Malians looted Arab-owned shops Tuesday in Mali’s fabled Timbuktu, newly freed from Islamists, as global donors pledged over $455 million for a French-led drive to rout the radicals from the north. Life in the ancient desert … read more »
By Christina Hellmich Is Al-Qaeda about to bring terrorism to Europe’s backyard in North Africa? The intervention of French military forces in Mali and the apparent reprisals in the form of the hostage crisis at the In Amenas gas processing … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article, Mali, North Africa, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Algeria, AQIM, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Belmokhtar, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Osama bin Laden
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BY ROGER HOWARD As they debate how to tackle the threat of insurgency and unrest in Africa, Western leaders could do worse than to consider one of the most important, yet curiously underplayed, aspects of that troubled region — the … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Malawi, Mali, Population growth, Saudi Arabia, Togo, United Arab Emirates
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What the Islamist terrorist threat has become is an incoherent pretext to intervene militarily on the part of the west. The only principled position to adopt therefore is the rejection of both, for the self-determination and sovereignty of the peoples. … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article, Mali, North Africa, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Algeria, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Libya, Mali, mali news, malian news, Saudi Arabia, United States
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A decade ago, western leaders’ excessive reaction and inflated rhetoric served to amplify rather than diminish the power of Islamist groups. The same danger now overhangs Mali, Algeria and beyond. A series of events and statements in the early weeks … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article, Mali, North Africa, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, Algeria, George W. Bush, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Mali, mali news, malian news, United States
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President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, arrive Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, for the 20th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of States and Governments of the African Union (AU) where he is expected to press further to secure the … read more »
Posted in African Union (AU), Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Addis Ababa, African Union, Al-Qaeda, Burundi, Economic Community of West African States, History of Nigeria, Indepth Africa Magazine, Mali, News from Nigeria, Newspapers in Nigeria, Nigeria, Nigeria news, nigeria news online, Nigerian, Nigerian news
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By Colin Freeman, Diabaly, telegraph In the end, Corporal Adama Toure chose to serve his country’s interests rather than his own, but it was a close-run thing. Sitting under the shade of a mango tree in the village of Diabaly … read more »
Opinion by Pauline Henson While Zimbabweans in the UK diaspora were shivering in the snow, their families and friends at home were being pelted with non-stop rain. Robert Mugabe and the late Libyan president Colonel Muammar Gaddafi At Vice-President John Nkomo’s … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, John Nkomo, Muammar Gaddafi, Mugabe, Robert Mugabe, United States of Africa, Zimbabwe
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BAMAKO — French air strikes destroyed the home of the leader of an Al-Qaeda-linked group in northern Mali as French-led forces advanced Sunday on the Islamist stronghold of Timbuktu. The overnight strikes in Kidal came 24 hours after French-led troops … read more »
Posted in Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Bamako, France, Gao, IndephtAfrica, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Kidal, Mali, Niger
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By Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) This past Wednesday, Secretary Hillary Clinton appeared, for what is likely her final time as Secretary of State, before the House Foreign Affairs Committee regarding the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate … read more »
Dore Gold long after the French offensive against African jihadists in Mali got underway, a leader of one of the offshoots of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) declared that his organization would “strike at the heart of France.” AQIM … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article, Libya, Mali
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Qaida, Algeria, AQIM, IndepthAfrica, Libya, Mali, North Africa
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CNN – Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga says his country will not negotiate with al Qaeda-linked Somali militants who have threatened to kill Kenyan hostages unless Nairobi releases all Muslims charged with terrorism. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in … read more »
President Obama’s inauguration finally trumped, if only temporarily, the bad news coming out of Mali and Algeria. From the front pages of U.S. newspapers, Americans have been getting a crash course in North Africa’s desolate Sahel region and our fight … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article, Mali, North Africa, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Algeria, Algeria news, Bamako, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, mali news, Sahel, United States
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By Matthew Schofield McClatchy Newspapers The war rages about cities with names such as Bamako and Timbuktu, in a sparsely populated, mostly flat, dusty and landlocked country in northwest Africa. The combatants include a nomadic Berber people known as Tuareg, … read more »
Posted in Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Benghazi, French Foreign Legion, IndepthAfrica, Maghreb, Mali, mali news, malian news, Osama bin Laden, United States
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