The reported killing of Abdelhamid Abou Zeid, one of the prominent commanders of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), in a French-led military operation against jihadists in Northern Mali, near the Algerian border, has unveiled the collusion existing between the terrorist group and the Polisario separatist Front. According to French daily Le Figaro which [...]
The new European mission meant to support the fight against organized crime and terrorism in the Sahel region, dubbed “EUCAP SAHEL Niger” kicked off earlier this month with the arrival in Niger of about 50 experts. The aim of “EUCAP SAHEL Niger”, initially due to last for two years, is to improve the capacities of [...]
The Egyptian army’s operation in the Sinai Peninsula to cleanse it off from terrorist after being attacked in the area has provoked a warning from an Islamist militant group active in the area. The militant group has vowed to fight back if the operation continues. The group known as Salafi Jihadi is considered to be [...]
The Malian army has rejected the ECOWAS’ offer to send regional troops to protect capital city, Bamako, arguing it’s up to the Malians to defend their own country. The ECOWAS offer was part of a military plan providing for sending more than 3,000 troops to free northern Mali from the grip of Islamic militants who [...]
France will not send troops to Mali but will support an African military intervention in the country to crack down on Islamist rebels, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said over the weekend. The French official deemed that an African military intervention is “desirable and inevitable” but said Paris will not take a military initiative [...]
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta has called on Maghreb countries to work together in the fight against the terror group, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) which is expanding its terror, human, arms & drug trafficking activities in the Sahel, threatening regional stability. In his remarks made during his trip to Tunisia part [...]
Malian Prime Minister, Sheik Modibo Diarra, voiced readiness to start negotiations with the occupiers of Northern Mali, on condition to isolate the Islamists. The Malian Prime Minister who was in Niger for talks with President Mahamadou Issoufou, told the media he was ready to have dialogue with the occupiers. “we are, as we have always [...]
A Nigerian court in Abuja Friday charged two Nigerians with having links with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The two men are accused of receiving funds from the terrorist group to finance the recruiting of militants with a view to sending them to training centers in Yemen. They are also said to have attended [...]
As the situation in northern Mali is deteriorating by the day and as voices from inside the country are mounting calling for a military intervention to stop the Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists who have enforced an austere version of sharia law, destroyed ancient cultural and religious shrines and surrounded cities with landmines to trap residents, the international [...]
The main terrorist groups operating in Africa and mainly in the Sahel region are coordinating efforts and helping each other through arms and funds sharing, a US official has warned. Speaking at a news conference in Washington recently, the head of the US Africa Command, General Carter Ham, said these groups, namely Al-Qaeda in the [...]
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