Africa

Tunisia is the third Arab country after Egypt and Sudan to say that it is fed up with the rule of the Islamists. With the exception of Qatar, most of the Arab countries have long regarded the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups as a major threat to security, stability and peace.

The Palestinians… seem to be the only Arabs who continue to believe in the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates, particularly Hamas, the terrorist group that has been ruling the Gaza Strip since July 2007.

Tunisia’s president Kais Saied has propelled the country into the unknown. On July 25, he announced he would dismiss the prime minister, suspend parliament and assume new powers, effectively concentrating all three branches of governance in his hands.

His actions were met with mass celebrations across the country, even as the military moved to lock down parliament and a number of state institutions. Simultaneously, the dominant political party Ennahda and its allies accused the president of orchestrating a coup.

New evidence from a United Nations report and a high-profile investor arbitration case is casting a spotlight on Rwanda’s role in sophisticated smuggling networks that extract gold and coltan from Congolese conflict zones and funnel the strategically important minerals illicitly into the global supply chain for consumer products such as cellphones, computers and jewellery.

Perhaps in an effort to signal an opening for negotiations, Al-Qaeda’s branch in the Sahel declared that French soil is not part of the conflict.

For the first time, an al-Qaeda affiliate publicly declared that the ongoing war with France does not include French soil.

The most active branches of al-Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State (IS) are currently in sub-Saharan Africa.

Tunisia’s largest party has held the entire political class responsible for crisis, while President Kais Saied says ‘no dialogue except with the honest’

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied said on Thursday there was “no turning back” from his decision to freeze parliament and assume executive power, moves his opponents have branded a coup.

Sur les réseaux sociaux, les représentants de la nouvelle génération soutiennent les mesures chocs annoncées par le chef de l’État tunisien. Mais leur appui n’est pas inconditionnel.

Fort de son slogan « le peuple veut », le président tunisien, Kaïs Saïed, avait largement été porté à Carthage par des groupes de jeunes mobilisés autour de sa campagne de 2019. L’ex-assistant universitaire en droit constitutionnel s’était en effet attaché le soutien de nombreux étudiants, mais aussi de jeunes actifs et de chômeurs, en assurant que « les jeunes ont leur programme ». Une partie de cette base électorale avait beau être dépourvue de bagage politique, elle a pour point commun de s’être construite dans le sillage d’une révolution dont elle a hérité, bon gré mal gré.

In early June, jihadist militants in Burkina Faso raided homes and the local market in Solhan, a village close to the border with Niger. By sunrise, they had killed at least 160 civilians in what local officials said was the country’s worst terrorist attack in years.

L’ONG française ne pouvait plus y travailler légalement. Au grand dam des populations en souffrance.

La région du nord-ouest anglophone du Cameroun est le théâtre d’une crise sécuritaire depuis quatre ans. L’ONG française y est suspendue par les autorités depuis huit mois, officiellement jusqu’à ce que son cadre de collaboration avec le gouvernement soit revu.

La mission des Nations unies en Centrafrique (Minusca) a reçu mardi le renfort de 300 Casques bleus rwandais pour sécuriser l’axe de ravitaillement vital reliant la capitale Bangui au Cameroun, a-t-elle indiqué dans un tweet.

Ce déploiement de troupes intervient dans le cadre d’une résolution du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies du 12 mars prévoyant d’augmenter progressivement d’environ 3.000 Casques bleus les effectifs de la Minusca.