Africa

The Sudanese military-led transitional government and several armed signatories to the Juba peace agreement on Sunday signed a two-year new implementation matrix for implementing the pact.

The transitional government in Khartoum and the armed groups signed a peace agreement on October 3, 2020, but the lack of money, the power struggle between the civilian and military components and a coup d’etat in October 2021 complicated the implementation process.

France’s defence minister pledged on Monday to boost military support to Ivory Coast, as Paris adjusts its strategy in West Africa after neighbouring Burkina Faso ordered French troops to leave and vowed to curb a worsening Islamist insurgency solo.

The army in Burkina Faso says more than 50 soldiers were killed in an attack by presumed Islamists in the north.

It said in a statement that 51 bodies had been found so far, several soldiers were still missing and three wounded soldiers had been evacuated from the scene.

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.