Africa

Nigeria: une soixantaine de morts dans une milice d’auto-défense dans le nord-ouest

Au Nigeria, une soixantaine d’hommes, tous membres d’une milice d’auto-défense, ont été assassinés dans le nord-ouest du pays. Ils ont été victimes de ceux qu’on surnomme « bandits » dans la région. Plus d’une centaine de groupes criminels sont actifs entre les États de Zamfara, Niger, Sokoto et Kebbi, où ils multiplient les exactions sanglantes, face auxquelles les forces de sécurité semblent bien impuissantes.

French forces kill long-time extremist in Mali amid pullout

French forces in Mali have killed a long-time al-Qaida official active in Algeria and Libya, French military authorities said Monday.

France’s army chief of staff said in a statement that Algerian Yahia Djouadi, who went by the name Abou Ammar al Jazairi, was killed north of Timbuktu Feb. 26 in a ground operation supported by a helicopter and two drones.

Mali-Algérie : qui est Yahia Djouadi, chef d’Aqmi tué par la France ?

Une opération des soldats français de Barkhane a mené à la neutralisation fin février de Yahia Djouadi. Surnommé « l’émir du Sahara », cet Algérien était un haut cadre d’Al-Qaïda au Maghreb islamique.

L’opération, menée par les forces spéciales françaises à une centaine de kilomètres au nord de Tombouctou, dans le septentrion malien, a conduit à la « neutralisation de Yahia Djouadi, alias Abou Ammar al-Jazaïri, haut cadre historique d’Aqmi […] dans la nuit du 25 au 26 février », a annoncé l’état-major des armées françaises par voie de communiqué ce lundi 7 mars.

Mister Hemedti Goes To Moscow

One would think that Russia was busy with other matters, but on February 20, 2022 – at the height of the Ukraine Crisis – the Sudanese Foreign Ministry announced that the Vice Chairman of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo “Hemedti” would travel to Moscow at the end of the week and meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov.[1] It is the first visit by a senior Sudanese official to Russia since the October 25, 2021 military coup in Sudan which removed the civilian part of the Sudanese government under Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok.

The Keep Africa Poor And Dependent Project

Exploited and abused for generations by white colonial powers and manipulative economic structures, there is a growing feeling of solidarity within parts of the African continent, as exemplified by the #NoMore movement. Covid vaccine inequality and environmental injustice, together with recent events in Ethiopia have galvanized people.

Get Dirty Or Die Trying

Introduction

In this paper, I will attempt to analyze the downward trend of collective intelligence among Ethiopia’s political leaders and elites. (1) The analysis covers a historical period that begins with the reign of Emperor Menelik II (2) (r. 1889–1913) until the premiership of Abiy Ahmed (since 2018). The study will therefore also cover two other monarchical periods: the era of Empress Zewditu (r. 1916–1930) (3), who was modern Ethiopia’s first female head of state, as well as the period of Emperor Haile Selassie (r. 1930–1974). Subsequently, the analysis will move on to the country’s conflicting experiments with republican governance: the military regime of Socialist Ethiopia, or Derg, (in power from 1974 to 1991) and the ethnic-federalist regime of the EPRDF/TPLF (1991 to 2018). It will conclude with the current regime, in power since 2018.

Eurafrique

Policy differences between Europe and Africa have been widening, and while there may be warm words about a new partnership when the leaders of the EU and African Union meet in Brussels, there are unlikely to be breakthroughs on key African demands.