Despite French and African troops intervention in Northern Mali to drive Jihadist militants out of the country, uncertainty is still looming on the region as armed groups seem to have come back to take revenge for their fighters killed in the French-led bombings started in January. According to press reports, armed groups have launched attacks [...]
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 French conglomerate Vivendi has flatly denied press reports alleging that it has been pressured to freeze the sale of its stakes in Maroc Telecom because of the war in Mali. The process of an eventual cession of Maroc Telecom is being carried on and discussions are underway with several potential buyers, said Vivendi in [...]
International donors meeting this Tuesday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, have pledged $455.53m for the international campaign to fight Islamist militants in Mali. The pledges cover the African-led International Support Mission to Mali (Afisma), humanitarian assistance, logistics, security improvement and the future development of Mali. Although African countries had requested the double of this amount to [...]
Reports of a foiled arms transaction are emerging between Ansar al-Din, a Touareg Islamist group in Mali, and a Mauritanian businessman by the Mauritanian forces stationed at Bassiknou. It is claimed that the businessman was to provide financial resources for the group to carry out its activities as it continues to control some of Mali’s [...]
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 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 [...]
The European Union on Monday announced it would send to Africa a new EU Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) mission to support the fight against organized crime and terrorism in the Sahel Region and another team of security advisors to fight piracy in the Horn of Africa. The first civilian mission, called EUCAP SAHEL [...]
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