Slightly over two weeks after President Uhuru Kenyatta’s proposal to deploy the East African Standby Force (EASF) to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, there are no boots on the ground.
Moussa Tolofidie didn’t think twice when nearly 100 jihadis on motorbikes gathered in his village in central Mali last week.
A peace agreement signed last year between some armed groups and the community in the Bankass area had largely held, even if the gunmen would sometimes enter the town to preach Shariah to the villagers. But on this Sunday in June, everything changed — the jihadis began killing people.
While Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is certain to dominate an upcoming NATO summit in Madrid, Spain and other member nations are quietly pushing the Western alliance to consider how mercenaries aligned with Russian President Vladimir Putin are spreading Moscow’s influence to Africa.
On June 8, Algeria suspended its Friendship and Neighborliness Treaty with Spain, in response to Madrid’s recent alignment with Morocco on the Western Sahara conflict. While the suspension of the treaty so far excludes contracts for gas, of which Algeria is Spain’s biggest supplier, it could jeopardize relations with the European Union. But with the change in Madrid’s position, Algeria felt it had to act to send a message, even if it comes at considerable cost.
During an African Union summit on humanitarian work in late May, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed affirmed his government’s “commitment to ensuring assistance reaches those afflicted by natural and manmade disasters,” and called on international partners to “scale up their support for humanitarian services across the continent.”
Civilian institutions are concerned that Sudan’s new puppet government is simply a cover for the return of Bashir and that, although he is in prison, he is behind every development in the Sudanese government.
This, apparently, is also the conviction of El Nur. He notes with distress that the massacres organized by the Janjaweed and the Rapid Intervention Forces have not seen any let up. Daily peaceful demonstrations in Khartoum and the rest of the country are interrupted by the police and state militias, who fire live ammunition at the crowds, while raids are conducted throughout Sudan. Homes are burned. Villagers are forced into the desert without food or water. Summary executions take place. Women and children are crushed by cars. Students are mown down by bullets.
La première conférence de paix chinoise pour la Corne de l’Afrique s’est clôturé mardi à Addis-Abeba. Habituellement discrète sur le terrain politique, Pékin a récemment nommé un envoyé spécial pour la région. Les différentes parties se sont accordées sur la résolution commune des conflits dans la région. Malgré cette déclaration d’intention, le sommet qui a duré deux jours, n’a pas rencontré l’engouement espéré par la Chine.
Alors que le nord-est du Nigéria continue d’être confronté à une insurrection djihadiste et une grave crise humanitaire, 4,1 millions de personnes risquent de subir une grave insécurité alimentaire en cette période de soudure, ont alerté ce mardi un haut responsable humanitaire de l’ONU, relevant qu’une aide urgente est nécessaire pour éviter une « grave crise alimentaire et nutritionnelle ».
Le président de la transition au Burkina Faso, le lieutenant-colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, a décidé de la création de deux “zones d’intérêt militaires” où toute “présence humaine est interdite”, dans le nord du pays, afin de lutter contre les violences djihadistes meurtrières.
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