Tag Archives: Islamism
Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Ansaru has proved to be a formidable threat during its short existence, using dynamite to penetrate heavily-fortified compounds and taking foreigners hostage. Ansaru was formed last January, though it rose to prominence only about six months … read more »
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Ansaru, Boko Haram, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Mali, Nigeria, Nigerian, nigerian newspapers, Nigerians
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Tunisia, one of the most secular Arab countries in modern times—and the first country to experience the “Arab Spring”—was also recently the first Arab country to experience an Islamic assassination since the Arab Spring began. The BBC explains: Tunisian opposition … read more »
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Tagged Arab Spring, bbc, Belaid, Egypt, IndepthAfrica, Islam, Islamism, Tunis, Tunisia
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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 »
Samir Amin I am one of those who out of principle condemn all military interventions by Western powers in the countries of the South, these interventions being by nature subject to the requirements of the deployment of control of the … read more »
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Tagged Algeria, France, French Armed Forces, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Mali, persian gulf, Sahelistan, United States
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A bomb explosion targeting soldiers killed at least two people on Friday in the restive northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri while houses and shops nearby were burnt, the military said. The two dead were suspected to be the bombers, according … read more »
After the US military heavily bombarded Iraq and crushed Saddam Hussain’s regime, then-President George W. Bush was quick to give his infamous “mission accomplished” speech in which he announced the end of major operations in Iraq. But little did he … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali, West Africa
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Tagged African Union, France, Gao, George W. Bush, IndepthAfrica, Iraq, Islamism, Mali, West Africa
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Gao: Black-robed Islamic extremists armed with AK-47 automatic rifles have penetrated the most populous city in northern Mali, engaging soldiers in combat in a surprise attack two weeks after French and Malian troops ousted the jihadists. The attack in Gao … read more »
AFP – A major explosion was heard late Saturday from the northern Malian city of Gao, which French-led forces recently recaptured from the Islamists, an AFP correspondent reported. The blast went off at around 11:00 pm (2300 GMT) and a … read more »
By RFI Villagers in north Mali arrested two young men with explosives strapped to their bodies on Saturday, witnesses report. On Friday a man blew himself up in the main city of Gao, the first suicide attack of the conflict … read more »
A suicide bomber has blown himself up near a group of Malian security troops in the central town of Gao, reports AP. The Malian army is currently fighting to wrest the north of the country from the hands of Islamist … read more »
Posted in Mali, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Associated Press, Bamako, Gao, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Mali, Military of Mali, Reuters, suicide bomber in mali
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By Faysal Qassim “Authoritarian leaders do repeat their tactics, once as tragedy, second as farce,” a modified version of Marx’s assertion in his article The Eighteenth Brumaire. On February 5, the regime in Ethiopia released a documentary film entitled “Jihadawi … read more »
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Tagged Akeldama, Authoritarianism, Democracy, East Africa, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, Ethiopians, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia
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(Reuters) – France plans to begin pulling troops out of Mali from March and will focus its operations on flushing out Islamist rebels in the north of the country, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Tuesday. “We will continue to … read more »
TIMBUKTU, Mali — Zahby Ould Ibrahim’s general store was looted to the studs this week. The horde that descended upon it took not just the shop’s stock of pots, pans and bedding but the electric sockets, the light bulbs and … read more »
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Tagged Dioncounda Traoré, France, François Hollande, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Mali, Timbuktu, Tuareg, Tuareg people
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Three suspected Jihadists who were arrested in the liberation of Timbuktu have said they were tortured by Malian soldiers who used a method similar to waterboarding. There are also reports of child soldiers being used by the Malian army. The … read more »
Posted in Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Libya, Mali, malian news, Military of Mali, Sévaré, Sharia, Timbuktu
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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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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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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 »
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 »
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Bamako, France, Gao, IndephtAfrica, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Kidal, Mali, Niger
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by John Campbell Nigerian soldiers sit in military trucks before leaving for Mali, at the airport in Nigeria 18/01/2013. (Afolabi Sotunde/Courtesy Reuters) High profile, violent killings have taken place in northern Nigeria at the same time as the French intervention … read more »
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Tagged Algeria, bokoharam, Indepth Africa Magazine, Interview Video, Islamism, Kano, MAIDUGURI, Mali, Man Utd Video, News for Nigeria, Nigeria, nigeria africa, nigeria mali, Nigeria news, Nigerian news, Oil in Nigeria, West Africa
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By Daniel Greenfield France took the lead in pushing for military intervention to overthrow Gaddafi. Now it’s fighting Islamists, many of them from Libya, armed with weapons that France airdropped to them, that Qatar smuggled to them or weapons from … read more »
Paul Rogers The seizure of an international gas-plant in Algeria follows closely the escalation of conflict in Mali. The response of western states to both reinforces the worldview of their Islamist adversaries. The combination of France’s armed intervention against Islamist … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article, Mali, North Africa, West Africa
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Tagged Algeria, Christopher Stevens, France, In Aménas, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Mali, Patrick Cockburn
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The Real Stakes of the War Rocking West Africa A Malian soldier peeks through a doorway behind which Malian and French soldiers are stationed in Niono. (Joe Penney / Courtesy Reuters) The last few months have shaken Mali to its … read more »
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Tagged Bamako, Economic Community of West African States, France, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Mali, mali news, malian news, New York Times, Tuareg people, West Africa
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By Sharif Nashashibi Just 10 days into its military intervention in Mali, there are already signs that France may have taken on more than it bargained for. The West African country may become to French President Francois Hollande what Iraq … read more »
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Tagged France, François Hollande, French Armed Forces, Hollande, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Mali, mali news, malia, Tony Blair, West Africa
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France has said one of its soldiers and an intelligence agent have been killed in a failed hostage rescue attempt in Somalia. The agent, who is code-named Denis Allex and was captured by militants in 2009, died in the fighting … read more »
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Tagged Al-Shabaab, Allex, Foreign hostages in Somalia, France, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfricaMagazine, Islamism, Jean-Yves Le Drian, Mali, Somalia
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France’s air force carried out an air strike in Mali on Friday as it supported government forces trying to halt a push south by Islamist rebels who control the north, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said. Asked at a news conference … read more »
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Tagged France, france air strike in mali, François Hollande, Friday, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Konna, Laurent Fabius, Mali, mali news, malian news, United Nations Security Council
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BAMAKO — Islamist fighters who have controlled northern Mali for months seized a government town in the country’s centre on Thursday and vowed to push further south, an Islamist official told AFP. Abdou Dardar, from the Ansar Dine group, said … read more »
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Bamako, Burkina Faso, European Union, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Konna, Mali, mali news, Thursday
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By Anthony Chuka Konwea, P.E. Bigotry and corruption are the two core existential threats confronting Nigeria in its stuttering march towards genuine nationhood. In a number of recent write-ups with general slant on nation-building, this writer has sounded the alarm … read more »
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Tagged bokoharam, IndepthAfrica, Islam, Islamism, Muslim, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigerian news, Northern Nigeria, South-Western Nigeria, Taliban
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