Itamilradar, a website on military aircraft tracking in Italy and the Mediterranean, has disclosed movements for Turkish military transport aircraft above the center and east of the Mediterranean towards Libya.
Millions of euros have been raised through appeals in Bosnia and Herzegovina to build wells and mosques in Africa, but concerns persist about suspect fundraising methods and claims that photographs documenting some charity-funded wells were faked.
As the conflict between the Polisario Front and Morocco intensifies, more than eight Arab countries rush to declare their full support for the kingdom, while Egypt simply calls on the parties to show restraint and refrain from any provocative actions.
The Libyan Interior Ministry said it had instructed all security apparatuses to secure the National Oil Corporation (NOC) after its headquarters was subjected to an attack by an armed group.
The Interior Ministry said in a statement that the security apparatuses in the capital had tackled the attack of the armed group on the NOC as they were authorized to use force of needed and to make arrests of all the perpetrators.
Libya’s state National Oil Corporation (NOC) confirmed that today there was an attempt by armed militias to storm its Tripoli headquarters.
The NOC confirmed media news that at noon today ‘‘some armed outlaw gangs attempted to forcefully enter the headquarters of the National Oil Corporation in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and the Petroleum Facilities Guard, charged with protecting the Corporation’s building, was surprised by the arrival of armed vehicles in the opposite direction to traffic, making some chaotic movements, withdrew weapons and tried to break into the outer fence to the institution building’’.
Egypt is reportedly seeking an alliance with Sudan and Israel to counter Turkish moves in the Red Sea.
In an attempt to counter the Turkish influence in the Red Sea and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ambitions in the region, there have been reports that Egypt has formed a tripartite front with Israel and Sudan.
Qatar has signed an agreement with the Tripoli-based Libyan government to build and train military forces in what some see as an attempt to undermine the current progress toward a political solution in Libya.
In what observers considered a new challenge for the 5+5 Joint Military Commission talks in Geneva and a desire to obstruct the peace endeavors between Libyan parties, Qatar signed a military agreement Nov. 13 with the Government of National Accord (GNA) based in western Libya to “train and build military capacities.” This step allows Qatar to boost its military presence on Libyan territories.
Migration barely came up at the recent G-7 summit in France—a far cry from just two years ago, when Italy hosted the G-7 in Sicily, which has seen an influx of migrants and asylum-seekers given its proximity to North Africa. The most prominent mention of migration in Biarritz took place on the sidelines of the summit, when President Donald Trump’s adviser, Stephen Miller—the architect of the administration’s restrictionist immigration policies—defended Trump’s efforts to make migrating to the United States even more onerous than it already is.
Yet even if migration has fallen off the front pages, each member of the G-7, with the possible exception of Japan, still has to address it on a policy level. Managing immigration and dealing with influxes of refugees and asylum-seekers remain delicate issues, with political consequences at home and economic repercussions within and across borders.
En Guinée-Conakry et en Côte d’Ivoire, les dernières élections présidentielles ont fragilisé l’équilibre social. Au Burkina-Faso, les électeurs s’apprêtent à voter ce dimanche, 22 novembre 2020 à la présidentielle. Au Mali, l’opération Bourrasque (FAMa, Barkhane, FAN…) porte des coups sérieux aux narcoterroristes avec la mort de Ba Ag Moussa, un des lieutenants d’Iyad Ag Ghaly du “GSIM”. Au même moment, pour ancrer son pouvoir dans la Sous-Région, le président de la transition, Bah N’Daw, fait la tournée de quelques chefs d’Etat ouest africains dont le Ghanéen Nana Akufo-Addo, président en exercice de la Cédéao. En Europe, la France, l’Allemagne, etc., sont de nouveau sous cloche pour limiter la diffusion du coronavirus. Les crises sont partout et s’accumulent. Mais où allons-nous ?
Tué en juin par les forces armées françaises, le djihadiste Abdelmalek Droukdel a été remplacé par l’Algérien Abou Oubaïda Youssef al-Annabi à la tête de l’organisation terroriste Al-Qaïda au Maghreb islamique.