Egypt prepares to launch major projects near Israeli border

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has decided to allocate several plots of land in North Sinai Governorate, including areas near Rafah, as part of its national plan to develop the Sinai Peninsula.

The Official Gazette published Presidential Decree No. 736 of 2025, which allocates state-owned land in North Sinai to the General Authority for Land and Dry Ports. The land will be used to establish logistics zones.

Tendances migratoires à surveiller en Afrique en 2025

La forte restriction des migrations irrégulières hors du continent, combinée à l’escalade des facteurs d’incitation, continuera à façonner les priorités en matière de gouvernance et de sécurité en Afrique et soulignera la nécessité d’une plus grande innovation régionale pour faire face aux mouvements de population intracontinentaux.

Ten security trends in Africa in 2025 in charts

Africa’s complex security landscape has been shaken by the combined effects of the growing regionalization of conflicts, offensives by militant Islamist groups, military coups and rivalries between outside actors.

A return to images in the year 2025 reveals an African security landscape reshaped by increasing external interventions, armies emboldened to seize power and consolidate it, and the proliferation of drones that extends the reach and lethality of armed fighters. The convergence of urbanization, demographic pressure and the increasing regionalization of conflicts is straining Africa’s already fragile security environment. Despite these challenges, many African countries have made significant progress over the past year in the development of their communication, road, rail and space infrastructure to increase economic productivity and opportunities for the continent’s 1.5 billion citizens, mostly young.

RSF transfers dozens of West Kordofan detainees to Nyala

Volunteers said on Thursday that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have transferred dozens of detainees from West Kordofan to Nyala, the capital of South Darfur.

The RSF is holding more than 19,000 people, including 5,000 civilians, in detention centres in Nyala, which it has designated as the headquarters for its parallel government. Reports indicate several deaths within these facilities due to hunger, torture, and medical neglect.

New Year, New Intrigue

The secret services of Israel, Turkey, China, the U.S. and UAE vie for influence in Somaliland

Since October 7, 2023, a rivalry has been unfolding between Israel and Turkey that evokes the “Great Game,” the 19th-century struggle between Czarist Russia and Britain for control and influence in Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia. Then, as now, this rivalry involves espionage and intelligence gathering, diplomatic intrigue, proxy warfare, and military missions. The U.S. is on the verge of getting more involved.

Somalie : Le président accuse Israël de vouloir installer de force des Palestiniens sur son territoire

«Après 34 ans, voir Israël surgir soudainement pour reconnaître le Somaliland est extrêmement inattendu et très étrange», déclare Hassan Cheikh Mohamud.

Le président somalien Hassan Cheikh Mohamud a mis en garde contre les ambitions d’Israël, qu’il accuse de vouloir installer de force des Palestiniens en Somalie et d’étendre son accès stratégique au golfe d’Aden et à la mer Rouge.

Sudan still on the road to collapse – The Maghreb and Orient Courier

This week the US House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa held a critical hearing regarding a long standing crisis with the title “ A Dire Crisis in Sudan: A Global Call to Action”. The subject matter is indeed timely, The situation in Sudan has gotten worse however the situation has been overshadowed by other crisis spots.