De Bamako à Ouaga, les partisans des juntes au pouvoir affichent des positions pro-russes et anti-françaises pour se donner une posture révolutionnaire. Bien commode quand on tente, comme Abdoulaye Maïga devant l’ONU, de masquer un échec politico-sécuritaire.
Consciente du recul de son influence, la France a réactivé sa politique maghrébine, notamment via la visite d’Emmanuel Macron à Alger fin août. Mais, dans un contexte de grandes tensions régionales, Paris navigue en eaux troubles.
Créées en 2019 pour combattre les groupes jihadistes, ces unités sont à l’origine de la fronde militaire qui a éclaté contre le régime de transition, ce vendredi 30 septembre.
Nouvel homme fort du Burkina Faso, le capitaine de 34 ans avait participé au coup d’État du lieutenant-colonel Damiba, en janvier. Surfant sur le mécontentement des officiers de sa génération à l’égard de leur aîné, le voilà désormais à la tête de la transition burkinabè.
As one of the signatories of the original Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the flawed nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration, Russia, as well as China, will ultimately have a say in any new agreement that emerges from the Vienna talks.
Iran sealed a main crossing point with Pakistan on Sunday amid deadly unrest and a crackdown on protesters in Zahedan, a southeastern Iranian city near the border.
Violence broke out in the capital of the Iranian Sistan and Balochistan province during Friday prayers, after worshipers in the city’s Makki Mosque called for a protest over the rape of a 15-year-old girl, allegedly by a local military commander.
Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine has revived the perennial debate about the need to reform the United Nations (UN) Security Council, including permanent representation for Africa. But has the conflict also increased the likelihood of change? The council was conceived in warfare – can it also be reformed by warfare?
European Eye on Radicalization (EER) recently hosted its fifteenth webinar on the thorny issue of whether jihadist foreign fighters from Europe and their families should be brought home, with specific reference to the members of the Islamic State (ISIS) in the camps in Syria.
Turkey’s interior minister on Saturday described a gun attack that killed a police officer in the country’s south as an “America-based” operation.
Two suspected Kurdish militants opened fire on security force lodgings in the Mediterranean province of Mersin late Monday, killing one officer and wounding a second officer and a civilian.
Turkish warplanes “neutralized” 23 Kurdish militants in a raid 140 kilometers (90 miles) inside Iraq, the Turkish Defense Ministry said Sunday.
The ministry usually refers to killed militants as “neutralized.” It said the number of casualties in the mission in the Asos region of northern Iraq, which is controlled by the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government, was expected to rise.