L’Union européenne s’apprête à réaffecter 121 millions d’euros d’aide au développement destinés à l’Érythrée en faveur d’autres projets dans la Corne de l’Afrique. Cette volte-face de la Commission de Bruxelles est motivée, selon nos informations, par le blocage par Asmara des chantiers financés, mais aussi par l’engagement des troupes érythréennes dans le Tigré.
Une ONG sensibilise sur les dangers de la migration irrégulière. Le message semble avoir été bien perçu par les jeunes qui sont tentés de quitter le pays.
Depuis quelques mois, une ONG ivoirienne sensibilise les jeunes sur les dangers de la migration irrégulière. Après cinq localités à l’intérieur du pays, Yopougon, commune située dans le nord d’Abidjan, a constitué la sixième étape, ce mercredi (28.04.21).
Au Burkina Faso, plusieurs milliers de personnes sont descendues le week-end dernier dans les rues de Fada, grande ville de l’Est en proie au terrorisme, pour réclamer davantage de sécurité, de meilleures infrastructures routières, des hôpitaux de qualité.
Plusieurs milliers de personnes sont descendues samedi dans les rues à Fada N’Gourma, à plus de 200km de Ouagadougou, dans l’Est du pays. Une région qui souffre depuis des années de la présence de groupes djihadistes. En tête de liste des revendications, l’amélioration de l’état des routes dans la région.
Entre 60.000 et 100.000 personnes ont été forcées de fuir leurs maisons à Mogadiscio, à la suite de la flambée de violence du 25 avril, a annoncé mercredi le Bureau de coordination des affaires humanitaires de l’ONU (OCHA).
Parmi ces personnes déplacées internes, figurent des personnes vulnérables déplacées à l’intérieur du pays qui avaient cherché refuge dans la capitale somalienne et qui ont à nouveau fui pour trouver refuge à la périphérie de la ville.
The visit of the prime minister of Libya’s Government of National Unity highlights an ongoing, close relationship with Turkey, with implications for the Libyan political process, and a likely signal to Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.
The prime minister of Libya’s Government of National Unity, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, led a large delegation during Dbeibeh’s visit to Turkey on April 12. The visiting officials took part in the first meeting of the recently formed High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council between the two countries.
Few nations have seen their dreams and hopes dashed as quickly and ruthlessly as South Sudan. A mere two years after thousands thronged the streets of the capital, Juba, to celebrate independence from Sudan’s autocratic rule, the country descended into a brutal civil war. The fallout between President Salva Kiir and Vice President-turned-rebel Riek Machar, and the subsequent fighting, exerted a terrible toll. Between 2013 and 2018, up to 400,000 people were killed and 4 million—a third of the country’s population—displaced, amid numerous reports of ethnic-based atrocities like rape and massacres.
“The terrorists are quick,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters after a summit with the leaders of Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and Burkina Faso in Ouagadougou in May. “This is why we have to be quicker, so that we can beat them.”
What happens in the Sahel, the vast sub-Saharan region of Northern Africa, “is not only the responsibility of the region, but is also a European responsibility,” Merkel added in what was for her some uncharacteristic alarmism. “If chaos gains the upper hand here—something we want to prevent—other areas would be impacted.”
The transitional government in Sudan announced last month that it will extradite former dictator Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where he is wanted on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity committed in Sudan’s Darfur region. The move was a sign that the new government in Khartoum, which took over last year after Bashir was ousted by the military amid popular protests, is trying to present itself as a responsible member of the international community. It also wants to draw a clear line under the Bashir era domestically and undertake serious peace negotiations with rebel groups, including in Darfur, where armed conflict persists.
A joint peacekeeping mission led by the United Nations and the African Union, known as UNAMID, has been deployed to Darfur since 2007. But its mandate is scheduled to end this fall, and the peacekeepers have been gradually leaving.
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Democratic Transition and the Critical Role of the Security Sector
Session Objectives
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has said Nigeria is facing “a state of emergency” as a result of ongoing insecurity. This emergency is commonly understood as the threat posed by Boko Haram in the country’s northeast. However, this understates the complexity and multidimensional nature of Nigeria’s security challenges, which impact all of the country’s regions. At the same time, armed violence is not omnipresent across Nigeria and is primarily concentrated in specific geographic corridors. Following is a review of Nigeria’s diverse security threats, the risks they pose, and the landscapes in which they have germinated.