Map 1 : The Gendarmerie Academy and barracks and the International Airport Modibo Keita
At dawn September 17, 2024, the Malian capital of Bamako witnessed one of the most brazen terrorist attacks seen in recent years. Armed gunmen first stormed a barracks of the gendarmerie in the south of the capital and subsequently attacked the military part of the airfield Modibo Keita.
Two African Union soldiers were killed and a third one injured by an al-Shabab mortar attack Sunday on their base inside the perimeters of Mogadishu’s international airport.
A statement by the head of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) and Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission Mohamed El-Amine Souef condemned the attack on the facility known as the Halane Base Camp.
At a large intersection in central Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, Asmelash Mariam waits cautiously for a speeding blue bajaj to let him cross.
The 28-year-old walks with a limp, but eases his way through the crowd, a serious and proud look on his face. Beneath his grey-washed jeans a prosthetic on his right leg replaces the limb he lost in the war two years ago.
Chad’s interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby has threatened to withdraw the Central African country from a multinational security force, which he said had failed in its task of tackling insurgent groups in the Lake Chad region.
Deby made the statement on Sunday during a visit to the region, which sits in part of western Chad and also Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon. Around 40 Chadian soldiers were killed in an attack there by suspected Boko Haram militants in late October.
A shadowy Russian political operator with close ties to the notorious Wagner Group and its late founder Yevgeny Prigozhin is detained in Chad on unexplained charges, adding a fresh chapter to his long career of mystery and intrigue.
Russian officials and state-controlled media maintain that Maxim Shugaley, who was detained on September 19 along with two other Russians, is an innocent sociologist who was in Chad to deliver humanitarian aid and participate in a pro-Russian event in the capital, N’Djamena.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been transformed from a local armed group with limited capabilities to a powerful military organization with support from Iran, Iraqi armed groups, Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants and others, U.N. experts said in a new report.
Criminal gangs in Nigeria’s North West region have grown increasingly lethal, routinizing mass abductions, seizing farms in an important breadbasket, and causing massive internal displacement.
The escalating violence of criminal gangs in Nigeria’s North West region has triggered growing instability in this ethnically diverse breadbasket of some 60 million people. The violence perpetrated by these criminal gangs, known locally as “bandits,” is on pace to make 2024 the worst year of insecurity in the region’s recent history. The 1,380 violent events and 3,980 fatalities projected for the year exceed the record levels observed in 2022, following declines in 2023. Fatalities linked to criminal gangs in the North West region now exceed those tied to militant Islamist groups in the North East region, a shift observed since 2021.
Médecins Sans Frontières a annoncé mercredi suspendre ses opérations à Nampala (centre du Mali) après de récentes brutalités commises contre ses personnels et des agents de santé dans cette zone, l’un des foyers des violences au Sahel.
MSF impute dans un communiqué ces brutalités à “des hommes armés menant régulièrement des opérations militaires dans la zone”, sans préciser son propos. Depuis plusieurs mois, l’armée régulière et ses alliés du groupe paramilitaire Wagner mènent des opérations contre les groupes armés jihadistes, dont la Katiba Macina affiliée à Al-Qaïda.
La Marine sénégalaise a porté secours mardi au large des côtes nationales à 183 migrants irrréguliers à bord d’une pirogue sur la route maritime de l’Europe, indique-t-elle sur les réseaux sociaux.
L’opération menée au large de Djiffer (ouest) non loin du point de départ de l’embarcation dans le delta du Saloum porte à 582 le nombre de migrants secourus en dix jours, selon les informations fournies par la Marine après trois interventions distinctes.
A Tripoli, la cheffe du gouvernement italien, Giorgia Meloni, a rencontré le premier ministre libyen, Abdel Hamid Dbeibah, mardi 29 octobre.
La Libye et l’Italie ont signé mardi 29 octobre plusieurs accords dans les domaines des investissements et des infrastructures notamment, avec le but de renforcer la coopération entre les deux pays méditerranéens. Les accords ont été signés par le premier ministre libyen, Abdel Hamid Dbeibah, et la cheffe du gouvernement italien, Giorgia Meloni, dans le cadre du forum d’affaires Italie-Libye, qui s’est tenu à Tripoli après une interruption de dix ans.