La forte restriction des migrations irrégulières hors du continent, combinée à l’escalade des facteurs d’incitation, continuera à façonner les priorités en matière de gouvernance et de sécurité en Afrique et soulignera la nécessité d’une plus grande innovation régionale pour faire face aux mouvements de population intracontinentaux.
En attaquant les artères de transport, les camions-citernes et les centres de population dans l’ouest du Mali, la coalition JNIM s’attaque aux vulnérabilités économiques, sécuritaires et politiques de la junte militaire de Bamako.
Africa’s complex security landscape has been shaken by the combined effects of the growing regionalization of conflicts, offensives by militant Islamist groups, military coups and rivalries between outside actors.
A return to images in the year 2025 reveals an African security landscape reshaped by increasing external interventions, armies emboldened to seize power and consolidate it, and the proliferation of drones that extends the reach and lethality of armed fighters. The convergence of urbanization, demographic pressure and the increasing regionalization of conflicts is straining Africa’s already fragile security environment. Despite these challenges, many African countries have made significant progress over the past year in the development of their communication, road, rail and space infrastructure to increase economic productivity and opportunities for the continent’s 1.5 billion citizens, mostly young.
La Chine a acquis une position dominante dans le secteur des minéraux critiques en Afrique grâce à des investissements à long terme dans les capacités d’extraction et de raffinage, ce qui rend difficile pour les pays africains de progresser dans la chaîne de valeur.
Volunteers said on Thursday that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have transferred dozens of detainees from West Kordofan to Nyala, the capital of South Darfur.
The RSF is holding more than 19,000 people, including 5,000 civilians, in detention centres in Nyala, which it has designated as the headquarters for its parallel government. Reports indicate several deaths within these facilities due to hunger, torture, and medical neglect.
The secret services of Israel, Turkey, China, the U.S. and UAE vie for influence in Somaliland
Since October 7, 2023, a rivalry has been unfolding between Israel and Turkey that evokes the “Great Game,” the 19th-century struggle between Czarist Russia and Britain for control and influence in Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia. Then, as now, this rivalry involves espionage and intelligence gathering, diplomatic intrigue, proxy warfare, and military missions. The U.S. is on the verge of getting more involved.
«Après 34 ans, voir Israël surgir soudainement pour reconnaître le Somaliland est extrêmement inattendu et très étrange», déclare Hassan Cheikh Mohamud.
Le président somalien Hassan Cheikh Mohamud a mis en garde contre les ambitions d’Israël, qu’il accuse de vouloir installer de force des Palestiniens en Somalie et d’étendre son accès stratégique au golfe d’Aden et à la mer Rouge.
The decisive shift in the Red Sea corridor is not in Yemen but in Somalia – where Turkey has built an offshore chapter of a strategic order the world refuses to face. The Houthis and Iran fill headlines, but the centre of gravity has shifted: a NATO state is projecting power far beyond its borders, and everyone looks away.
This week the US House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa held a critical hearing regarding a long standing crisis with the title “ A Dire Crisis in Sudan: A Global Call to Action”. The subject matter is indeed timely, The situation in Sudan has gotten worse however the situation has been overshadowed by other crisis spots.
Caught between economic pragmatism and moral outrage, Cairo struggles to justify deal seen by critics as aiding pariah state
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared on television to announce his government had approved the country’s largest export agreement, he cast it as a triumph of pragmatism and peace.