Author: M Barbu

Burkina : les forces spéciales françaises sur le départ ?

Après le Mali, les militaires français pourraient quitter le Burkina Faso.Les forces spéciales françaises présentes au Burkina Faso pourraient quitter ce pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest. Dans un entretien avec le Journal du Dimanche, le ministre français des Armées, Sébastien Lecornu, n’écarte pas cette hypothèse. “Il est évident que notre stratégie générale en Afrique interroge toutes les composantes de notre présence, y compris les forces spéciales”, explique-t-il, notant que l’unité des forces spéciales déployées à Ouagadougou et connue sous le nom de “Sabre”, “a un role clé ces dernieres années dans la lutte contre le terrorisme au Sahel”.

Top Mali Commander Calls On All Tuaregs To Fight Islamic State Group

A leading commander in Mali’s army has called on ethnic Tuaregs to fight jihadists in the north of the country in a WhatsApp audio message authenticated Monday by AFP.

General El Hadj Ag Gamou, himself a Tuareg and a major figure in the Malian army’s fight against the Islamic State in the Great Sahara (ISGS) — which is affiliated with the Islamic State organisation — called on the military help of all Tuaregs inside and outside the country.

China in Africa: The Role of Trade, Investments, and Loans Amidst Shifting Geopolitical Ambitions

Chinese influence in Africa is high on the global agenda, as China within just a few decades has become a key political and economic power in the continent. Indeed, its emergence as a dominant economic and political actor might be the most important development in Africa since the end of the Cold War. This paper analyses China’s economic and political relations with Africa beginning in the 1990s. It argues that the concern is not that China has expanded its economic and political presence in the African continent; rather, that the other stakeholders have ignored it for long.

2021 Report on International Religious Freedom: North Macedonia

Executive Summary

The constitution prohibits religious discrimination and provides for freedom of religion and religious expression. It grants equality before the law for all individuals regardless of religious belief. The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and other government ministries discussed amendments to the 2007 law governing religion that would enable larger religious communities to acquire the status of “legal entities,” but the MOJ again postponed consultations with religious groups on the amendments. On February 18, the Islamic Religious Community in North Macedonia (IRC) publicly condemned the government’s official registration of the Islamic Salafi community in December 2020, saying it would be detrimental to Muslim unity. IRC leaders said relations with the government improved following a meeting in January between IRC leader Reis Shaqir Fetahu and President Stevo Pendarovski, but that some government ministries and the judiciary continued to treat the organization unfavorably. The Skopje Appellate Court upheld a lower court’s rejection of the registration application of the Orthodox Archbishopric of Ohrid (OAO) because the application had not been submitted by the deadline.

Al-Shabab gunman kills 3 Kenyan peacekeepers in Somalia

A lone gunman entered a military base in Somalia and killed at least three Kenyan peacekeepers Monday, the latest attack by extremist fighters who oppose the presence of foreigners in the Horn of Africa nation, according to Kenya’s military.

UK troops may go to Ghana in shift of strategy against terror

British ministers are expected to fly to Ghana this week to hammer out a new security agreement

Britain may be invited to send special forces to Ghana after it was forced to withdraw all of its 300 peacekeepers from Mali in the face of bands of Russian mercenaries and jihadist groups, The Telegraph understands.