On Monday, Burkina Faso authorities reported at least 50 death resulting from an allegedly jihadist attack.
Lionel Bilgo, Burkina Faso Government spokesperson, announced on Monday that 50 people died from the attack reportedly carried out by jihadists in a village in the north of the country.
One of the most interesting intersections in US Foreign Policy currently is the conflicts that are presented when US National Security Interests are in conflict with Human Rights Concerns.
Currently most focus has been on the relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia. There is an effort currently by the Biden Adminstration to have the Kingdom increase its Energy output while criticism over the murder of Mr. Khashoggi and the role of the Kingdom in the Yemeni conflict appear to be clarion calls for Human Rights Activists.
Tunisian authorities arrested a number of officials linked to Ennahda, the main opposing party to President Kais Saied, in connection with the deportation of Tunisians to fight in Syria.
On the morning of Sept. 21, Tunisian authorities released the deputy head of Ennahda movement, Ali Laarayedh, after he was detained on Sept. 20 for questioning in the case of deporting Tunisian jihadists to combat zones a decade ago.
Plus de 600 migrants d’Afrique centrale et de l’ouest sont arrivés le 17 septembre dans le nord du Niger après avoir été refoulés par l’Algérie.
Repoussés, ces migrants ont rejoint la ville nigérienne d’Assamaka, située non loin la frontière algérienne. L’Algérie aurait expulsé depuis 2014 des dizaines de milliers de migrants irréguliers originaires d’Afrique de l’Ouest et centrale, selon les Nations unies.
L’instruction de l’affaire du démantèlement, en avril dernier, d’un réseau de trafic de cocaïne entre l’Amérique du Sud, la Côte d’Ivoire et l’Europe se poursuit. Les hommes d’affaires visés par l’enquête ont été entendus par le pôle pénal économique et financier. Coulisses.
Depuis janvier, le Burkina Faso utilise des drones armés, ayant passé, comme ses voisins – le Togo et le Niger – commande en 2021 pour des Bayraktar TB2, de construction turque. La plupart des drones armés utilisés en Afrique sont produits par des partenaires du Sud, comme la Turquie, la Chine ou encore l’Iran. Et s’ils sont de plus en plus visibles dans les cieux, de la Corne de l’Afrique jusqu’au Sahel, ces déploiements ne suffiront pas à changer la donne face à la menace terroriste, selon des experts.
Le groupe djihadiste, qui a tué plus de 900 personnes depuis le début de son offensive, en mars, consolide son emprise sur la région tout en déployant ses tentacules au Sahel.
At least 400 Chadian workers rounded up in east Libyan town of Ajdabiya after security forces in Chad arrest four Libyan poachers
Hundreds of Chadians are being rounded up and detained on the streets of a Libyan town for a ninth day in retaliation for the Chad government’s arrest of four Libyan men on suspicion of poaching endangered animals.
Eritrea is mobilizing its armed forces and appears to be sending them to Ethiopia to aid its neighbor’s war in the Tigray region, according to activists and international authorities.
Britain and Canada issued travel advisories asking their citizens in Eritrea to be vigilant.
Eritrean rights activist Meron Estefanos told The Associated Press that her cousin was called up “and is somewhere in Ethiopia fighting and we don’t know if he is alive or not.”
Rached Ghannouchi, his deputy face charges of sending Tunisians to hotspots overseas
TUNIS, Tunisia
Tunisian authorities on Sunday summoned Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi and his deputy for questioning on terrorism accusations.
“Ghannouchi and Ali Laarayedh will appear before the anti-terror unit on Monday to answer accusations of sending Tunisians to hotspots” overseas, Riadh Chaibi, a political adviser to Ghannouchi, told Anadolu Agency.