Le ministre Commissaire à la sécurité alimentaire, Redouwane Ag Mohamed Ali, a présidé, hier lundi 15 mars, à l’hôtel Salam, la cérémonie d’ouverture d’un l’atelier consacré à l’évaluation définitive de la situation alimentaire au titre de la campagne agricole 2020-2021.
In early March, over three hundred schoolgirls abducted by armed groups from a secondary school in Zamfara State in northern Nigeria were released by their abductors. Unfortunately, the global outrage this incident stoked has not deterred the armed groups operating in the north. Just last week, another set of students was kidnapped from a college in Kaduna State—the third mass kidnapping of students in Nigeria in 2021. An ugly video released by the kidnappers in Kaduna showed the students being brutalized by their abductors. Nigeria clearly needs to do more to protect its children. The country’s future depends on it.
Some operatives of the Nigerian Army were also killed during the attack on Thursday in Gudumbali, a village in Kukawa LGA. Some CJTF members have still not been accounted for 48 hours after the ambush.
Militants of the Islamic State backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, have killed a top commander of the Civilian Joint Task Force in the Kakuwa Local Government Area of Borno state, Yusuf Baba Idris and three other members of the vigilante group.
Au mois d’octobre, des combats violents opposant les combattants du groupe État islamique et d’al-Qaïda avaient été signalés. C’est à nouveau le cas depuis une dizaine de jours dans la région du Gourma malien. Les branches locales des deux organisations terroristes, Aqmi et l’EIGS, sont en concurrence au Sahel pour le contrôle de certaines zones.
Près de dix ans après la chute de Ben Ali, le pouvoir est confronté à une colère qui monte, et dont les motifs sont aussi variés que nombreux. Plusieurs manifestations sont prévues le 17 décembre.
Le chef de l’ONU et l’Agence des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés (HCR) ont condamné l’attaque perpétrée par des assaillants armés à Toumour, une localité du sud-est du Niger, qui a tué 28 personnes et en a blessé des centaines d’autres.
La Somalie a rompu mardi ses relations diplomatiques avec le Kenya, qu’elle accuse d’ingérence, après des mois de tensions croissantes entre les deux voisins d’Afrique de l’Est et alors que Mogadiscio se prépare à des élections pour désigner ses députés et son président.
In Egypt, protests gathered momentum, and the army pulled its forces from the protests and Mubarak stepped down – to be tried in August on charges of abusing power and killing demonstrators.
Tunisia’s revolution after a fruit seller killed himself a decade ago inspired a wave of revolt in Arab countries as people rose up to demand democracy. This is what happened in each of the main uprisings.
Former President Omar al-Bashir was toppled in April 2019 and Sudan is in transition under a military-civilian ruling council and a government of technocrats.
The US decision to end Sudan’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism comes into effect on Monday. The listing, in place for almost three decades, restricted Khartoum’s economic links and cut it off from much-needed financial assistance.
Sudan has had the designation since 1993, on the grounds that ousted President Omar al-Bashir was harboring militant groups. It has cut Sudan off from financial assistance and investment.