Le sort des otages locaux préoccupe au Mali, depuis l’échange de prisonniers entre les autorités et les groupes armés djihadistes ayant favorisé la libération de Soumaïla Cissé et trois autres ex-otages occidentaux.
Le ministre français des Affaires étrangères se rend ce dimanche au Mali pour une visite de deux jours. C’est la première visite d’une autorité civile française depuis le coup d’État du 18 août. Le chef de la diplomatie française aura des entretiens notamment avec le président de la transition et son Premier ministre Moctar Ouane. Paris veut parler de paix, de sécurité, mais également apporter son soutien à la transition.
”Ne așteptăm ca după cinci ani să primim un mesaj de la Iulian sau noi să-i putem trimite un mesaj. Să știe că familia se gândește la el, iar noi să știm că este bine”, spune sora lui Iulian, Elvira Gherguț, pentru Libertatea. Autoritățile de la București menționează că nu au noutăți, dar că se lucrează.
SUDAN U.S. President Trump announced a normalisation agreement between Sudan and Israel on Friday, shortly after signing an order to remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism in exchange for the country paying $335mn to the families of victims of the 1998 Al Qaeda bombings in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi. Crisis Group expert Jonas Horner says removing Sudan from the U.S. State Department’s terror list will boost Prime Minister Hamdok politically and facilitate Khartoum’s access to desperately needed international debt relief and loans to combat the country’s dire economic crisis. While the Trump administration will herald the normalisation agreement as a foreign policy victory ahead of the U.S. presidential election, the deal may catalyse a new wave of dissent among Sudanese Islamists.
In a COVID-altered landscape of global security threats, economic opportunities and strategic change, Africa is seizing center stage. Africans form the world’s fastest-growing population and national economies. Violent crises, democracy movements, extremist threats, international investments, human displacement and strategic opportunities all are rising. The coronavirus pandemic underscores both Africa’s risks to global stability from fragile states—and the overlooked potential of a continent now outperforming wealthier regions in containing the public health crisis. COVID is the latest reminder that “Africa’s deepening vulnerabilities and its rising capacities will shape global realities whether we prepare for that or not,” according to scholar Joseph Sany.
Du haut de sa position du vice-président de la transition, le Colonel Assimi Goïta et ses affidés portent en parfaite symbiose pour exercer une pression colossale au sommet de l’État. Pas en termes du bon travail, mais en termes d’emprise sur les prérogatives du Chef de l’État.
Le chef de la diplomatie française, Jean-Yves Le Drian qui devait se rendre jeudi à Bamako, a reporté son voyage à dimanche en raison d’un incident technique, a-t-on annoncé dans son entourage. Le Falcon dans lequel il devrait arriver à Bamako via Tunis n’a pas pu décoller pour des raisons techniques, nécessitant un changement de programme, a-t-on précisé.
An upcoming joint naval exercise involving the Egyptian and Russian navies, announced by the Russian Defense Ministry on October 10, is testimony to the fluid and rapidly changing strategic situation in the Eastern Mediterranean arena and the Middle East more generally.
The UN says both sides in the Libyan civil conflict have reached a permanent cease-fire agreement. The world body called the deal a “historic achievement.”
Twenty-eight-year-old Libyan Mohammed Abu Ajila Enbis is alive today purely by luck as he survived the brutalities of the Russian Wagner group’s mercenaries in the war-torn country by pretending to be dead.