Les assauts contre l’armée béninoise se sont intensifiés ces derniers mois dans le nord du pays, où une attaque djihadiste a fait 54 morts le 17 avril dans les rangs des militaires.
Le nord du Bénin, confronté à des attaques djihadistes de plus en plus meurtrières, paie le prix fort d’une coopération sécuritaire défaillante entre ce pays du golfe de Guinée et ses voisins sahéliens, le Burkina Faso et le Niger, qui ouvre la voie aux islamistes, selon des experts interrogés par l’Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Des unités de la garde nationale ont mis le feu aux tentes installées dans des oliveraies du centre-est du pays, sur fond d’accélération des retours « volontaires » des migrants dans leurs pays.
Les autorités tunisiennes ont de nouveau démantelé jeudi 24 avril des camps de fortune de migrants originaires d’Afrique subsaharienne, installés dans des oliveraies dans le centre-est du pays, sur fond d’accélération des retours « volontaires » de personnes migrantes dans leurs pays. Des unités de la garde nationale ont mis le feu aux tentes dans ces camps, selon un journaliste de l’Agence France-Presse (AFP) sur place.
Algerian authorities rounded up more than 1,800 migrants and left them at the Nigerien border in a record expulsion earlier this month, a Niger-based migrant rights group said Thursday.
Alarmphone Sahara, which monitors migration across the region, said the migrants were bused to a remote desert area known as “Point Zero” after being apprehended in Algerian cities.
A new study from Europe provides insight into how migrants lock and smuggling is working in Libya. Not only local rulers are involved, Russian interests are also involved.
Since the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, Russia has had a problem: the future of its naval base at the Mediterranean port of Tartus and its Syrian air base Hmeim is in question. It is uncertain whether and, if so, to what extent the Russian military can hold both bases in Syria after Moscow’s partner Assad has been expelled.
Libyan authorities recently ordered ten international aid organizations to suspend their operations and close offices in the country, accusing them of providing humanitarian assistance to help resettle African migrants in “a plot” to change the demographic composition of Libyan society.
The statement reflects similar incendiary comments from Tunisian President Kais Saied in 2023, echoing the white supremacist “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory.
The scene is a middle-class dining-room in a western country in the late 1960s. A fresh-faced Child, flushed with excitement, just home from university, recounts their participation in a march against the Vietnam War.
“So what you mean” says Parent, “is that you want the Communist system set up here. You won’t be so happy when they take you away to a labour camp like they do in Vietnam.” the discussion rapidly degenerates into an exchange of insults and Child rushes out of the room.
The Libyan Attorney General accused suspected traffickers of torturing migrants to pressure their families into paying ransoms for their release.
Four suspected human traffickers have been arrested for their ties to a migrant smuggling network that held and tortured 164 migrants, Libya’s attorney general said Tuesday.
The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict has resulted in nearly $300 billion in expenditures, over 150,000 lives lost, and the displacement of more than 10 million people, as reported by The Washington Post. While the war is framed around a simple ‘YES’ or ‘NO’ to Ukraine’s NATO membership, a deeper analysis suggests that the conflict is a strategic battle over maintaining global hegemon status and somewhere for mineral resources, particularly between the United States and Russia. It is also to undermine the silent rise of China’s threat against USA’s unipolar hegemony by stopping the subsequent bandwagoning of countries in Asia and Africa.
(FPRI) — As the global epicenter of Salafi-jihadi activity, the Sahel in 2023 accounted for 26 percent of global terrorist attacks, which caused 47 percent of terrorist-related deaths. Burkina Faso is ranked as the country most affected by terrorism in the world, followed by Mali in third place and Niger in tenth. Both would be one spot higher if not for Hamas’s October 2023 attacks in Israel. These standings show the prevalence and lethality of jihadist groups in the Sahel. The situation has not always been this dire. After Malian and French security forces regained control of northern Mali from jihadists in 2014, terrorist attacks were infrequent. There was little evidence of insurgencies until 2016. However, jihadist activity rose steadily from 2017 until 2021, and since 2021, jihadist attacks have doubled and resulting deaths have tripled. Mali has little control over its northern regions and is constantly contested in its central regions. Jihadist groups control or contest over half of Burkina Faso. In all three countries, jihadists are encircling areas closer to the capitals. Attacks have spread to coastal countries Benin, Togo, and Côte d’Ivoire. Thus, jihadist groups have reconstituted since their 2014 setback to wage escalating insurgencies and conduct complex terrorist attacks.
