Africa

Les conflits dans les régions du Sahel nécessitent une approche globale et une appropriation des médias. Le 9 septembre 2024, le journal français «Contre-Poison» a publié une interview de Mohamed Elmaouloud Ramadane, porte-parole du CSP-DPA (Cadre stratégique pour la défense du peuple de l’Azawad). Cet épisode a attiré l’attention sur le rôle des médias occidentaux dans la diffusion d’informations sur les groupes considérés comme terroristes par les autorités du Mali.

The Sahel region of north Africa may be understood as “one region, many crises.” This statement is taken from a paper first published in 2013 by the UN’s Africa Renewal Project, but it is no less relevant today – perhaps, more so. Africa’s Sahel region faces many complex and interconnected challenges.

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has condemned reports as part of a larger disinformation campaign aimed at misleading the Libyan public and diverting their attention from their rightful demands for political and economic reforms.

The ongoing rift between political leaders in eastern and western Libya briefly roiled the oil market last week, as both sides seek to control the state’s assets to further their objectives.

As has been the case in several regional countries, United Nations, U.S., European, and other mediators have failed to persuade rival factions to implement a roadmap to forge a unified political and security structure.

Libya’s political crisis has provided opportunity for regional and global actors to empower Libyan factions to advance their agendas.

While America is ramping up its operations to counter Wagner’s growing popularity across Africa, it lacks the credibility to advance its goal through information warfare alone as proven by its failures in Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Sudan, which are the six countries of focus mentioned in Politico’s latest report.

It’ll of course take some time to reap the fruits of this vision, but throughout the interim, these countries can rely on varying degrees of Russian assistance.

Burkina Faso revealed in February that it planned to create a confederation with neighboring Mali, which President Traore elaborated on in an exclusive interview with Sputnik in late July. Those two and their mutual Nigerien neighbor then formed the Sahelian Alliance in mid-September nearly three months after that last-mentioned country’s coup. This platform created the basis upon which to include Niger in the planned Burkinabe-Malian Confederation according to their Foreign Ministers’ latest joint statement.

La guerre civile en Libye est devenue une lutte de plus en plus géostratégique. Un accord négocié sous l’égide des Nations Unies et soutenu par les États non alignés est le meilleur moyen de parvenir à une désescalade durable qui permettra à la Libye de retrouver sa souveraineté.