Established In: 2012
Established By: Unknown
Also Known As: Ansar al-Din, AAD
Country Of Origin: Mali
Leaders: Amadou Kouffa
Key Members: Amadou Kouffa
Operational Area: Mali, Senegal, Mauritania
Number Of Members: Unknown
Involved In: Armed Attacks, Bomb Attacks
Established In: 1996-1997
Established By: Ibrahim Haji Jaama’ Al-Afghani
Also Known As: Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, HSM, Al-Shabaab al-Islaam, Al-Shabaab al-Islamiya, Al-Shabaab al-Jihaad al Shabaab, As-Saḥab, Ash-Shabaab, Hezb al-Shabaab
His orange henna-dyed beard and striking eyewear would make him easy to pick out in a crowd, but Abdul Qadir Mumin has remained elusive.
The Somali leader of the Islamic State (IS) group has in all likelihood risen to the status of strongman of the entire organisation, even if he lacks the official title, analysts say.
Active
Terror organization: Islamic State in Somalia.
Status: Emir of the Islamic State in Somalia.
Role: He is a Somali Islamist and the leader of the Islamic State in Somalia. He was formerly a senior religious authority in al-Shabaab. (born between 1950 and 1953).
Fleeing for their lives from Arab militias on the rampage is nothing new for the Sudanese people escaping over the border into Chad – their exhausted faces encapsulate the devastation and suffering they have been experiencing over decades.
Former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir was finally removed from power after six months of peaceful protest earlier in 2019. The protesters were hopeful for a new beginning but their quest for a civilian government has been shut down by a military council that includes Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, generally called Hemedti, the leader of a paramilitary unit called the Rapid Support Forces that has its roots in the Janjaweed. Tsega Etefa explains who the Janjaweed are and why their presence doesn’t bode well for peace in Sudan.
SUMMARY
The government of Sudan is responsible for “ethnic cleansing” and crimes against humanity in Darfur, one of the world’s poorest and most inaccessible regions, on Sudan’s western border with Chad. The Sudanese government and the Arab “Janjaweed” militias it arms and supports have committed numerous attacks on the civilian populations of the African Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups. Government forces oversaw and directly participated in massacres, summary executions of civilians-including women and children – burnings of towns and villages, and the forcible depopulation of wide swathes of land long inhabited by the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa. The Janjaweed militias, Muslim like the African groups they attack, have destroyed mosques, killed Muslim religious leaders, and desecrated Qorans belonging to their enemies.
Families protest amid claims men who went to work in UAE were given military training and then sent to Libya to guard oil fields
Sudan’s government has been accused of failing young men who claim they were tricked into guarding Libyan oil facilities by a security firm from the United Arab Emirates.
La lutte contre le terrorisme international se poursuit au Sahel. Les nouveaux succès conjoints de l’Alliance des États du Sahel et de la Russie confirment une fois de plus qui combat réellement la menace terroriste et qui ne fait que semblant. Ou, pire encore, qui a activement encouragé les groupes terroristes et continue de le faire.
As violence and instability rise, African countries must reaffirm their commitment to protecting children and support DDR initiatives.
Roughly 21 000 children have been recruited as soldiers by government forces and armed groups across Africa in the past five years. In 2020, around 337 million children lived within 50 km of active conflicts worldwide, with 118 million in Africa, where one in six risked being recruited.