Since the overthrow of the government in 2011, Libya has been divided. Tripoli and the West sought to control the eastern part of the country, a fiefdom of the “Libyan National Army” (LNA) led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar. Subsequently, dual power prevailed and the country ceased to function as a single State.
Robert Gates, the former US Secretary of Defense, wrote in his memoirs that when the decision was made to launch a military attack against Afghanistan in 2001, that nobody in Washington had a real idea of how complex a nation it is. This included Afghanistan’s various ethnic groups and the rivalries between urban and rural areas of the country.
After its ousting from Syria and Iraq, the armed group is now trying to build a caliphate in the restive Sahel region.
Illegal armed groups are opportunistic by nature. They usually start their operations and recruit followers in countries where there is poverty, corruption, religious conflict or ethnic strife, and where the security forces are unable to keep the public safe and illegal formations under control.
La tension est encore montée d’un cran entre le pouvoir central de Bamako et la CMA, la Coordination des mouvements de l’Azawad, une alliance de groupes touareg et nationalistes arabes du Nord du pays, signataires de l’accord de paix d’Alger en 2015. Amadou Albert Maïga, membre du Conseil national de transition, a en effet diffusé le 10 février une vidéo dans laquelle il prédit une guerre entre les forces maliennes et les groupes armés signataires. Ces derniers ont vivement condamné ces propos.
En manque de liquidité, le gouvernement burkinabè de la transition a décidé de réquisitionner plusieurs centaines de kg d’or des mines industrielles et leur exige aussi de lui verser une part du chiffre d’affaires “pour nécessité publique”.
« Story Killers ». La société Percepto, qui a pignon sur rue en Israël, propose des opérations difficilement traçables présentant toutes les caractéristiques d’entreprises de désinformation. Parmi ses victimes : le CICR au Burkina Faso.
Large-scale counts of foreign fighters in Libya have begun, most of them Sudanese, in preparation for their withdrawal from the north African country.
Tunisian authorities arrested the leader of the Ennahda opposition Islamist movement in a crackdown on rival politicians and critics of the North African country’s increasingly authoritarian president Kais Saied, lawyers said Tuesday.
Despite leadership losses and diminished cash reserves, the extremist group ISIL, or Da’esh, continues to pose a threat to international peace and security, the UN counter-terrorism chief warned last week in New York.
Russia has consistently been assisting Republics of Burkina Faso, Guinea and Mali in West African region to root out French domination. Burkina Faso and Mali are part of the Sahel-5. Russia has embarked on fighting “neo-colonialism” which it considers a barrier on its way to regain part of Soviet-era influence in and consolidate its relations with Africa.