Two West African states are repatriating their citizens from Tunisia following inflammatory remarks by President Kais Saied last week.
Mr Saied said that migration was a “plot” to change the country’s demographic profile, blaming “traitors who are working for foreign countries”.
‘Colonisation is an unhappy memory that pushes many people to revolt.’
French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting several African countries this week in an attempt to reverse his country’s waning influence on the continent as key allies eye up partnerships with other global powers, including Russia.
À Niamey, une nouvelle réunion de haut-niveau de la Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh/ISIS a débuté le 1er mars 2023. Son objectif : faire des propositions pour vaincre les groupes terroristes comme le groupe État islamique en Afrique de l’Ouest.
Le président français Emmanuel Macron a affirmé jeudi à Libreville que l’ère de la “Françafrique” était “révolue” et que la France était désormais un “interlocuteur neutre” sur le continent.
La junte militaire malienne a aliéné ses partenaires sécuritaires régionaux et internationaux alors même que la violence des groupes islamistes militants est en plein essor, provoquant un pic dans les décès de civils.
Depuis sa prise du pouvoir en août 2020, la junte militaire malienne a aliéné ses partenaires sécuritaires régionaux et internationaux et poursuivi une stratégie qui n’a fait qu’exacerber la violence des militants islamistes qui menacent le pays et accélérer la crise sécuritaire au Sahel.
Russia has systematically sought to undercut democracy in Africa, both to normalize authoritarianism as well as to create an entry point for Russian influence.
It is often said that since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the abandoning of communism that Russian foreign policy lacks an ideology.
The military junta in Mali has alienated regional and international security partners amid escalating violence by militant Islamist groups, leading to a spike in civilian fatalities.
Since taking power in August 2020, the military junta in Mali has alienated its regional and international security partners and pursued a strategy that has exacerbated the militant Islamist violence threatening the country, thereby accelerating the security crisis in the Sahel.
Continuing a decade-long upward trend, violent events linked to militant Islamist groups in Africa increased by 22 percent while fatalities surged by 48 percent over the past year.
The signing of a permanent ceasefire agreement between Libya’s warring factions on October 23 was widely marketed as a watershed moment that would redress the country’s spiraling trajectory. Paving the way for the United Nations-hosted Libyan Political Dialogue Forum to relaunch on October 26, the agreement was also the building block for the first United Nations-mediated meeting inside Libya in years. On November 1, the Joint Military Commission (5+5)—military representatives of the Eastern-based Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF) and the Government of National Accord, who are aligned with General Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA)—met in the border town of Ghadames to discuss ways to solidify their bare-boned ceasefire agreement. Yet, the international exhilaration that accompanied the launch of these talks obfuscates the very real possibility of a relapse into violent conflict. There are legitimate doubts over the fealty of local and international stakeholders—such as Russia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates—to the security track’s basic conditions. There is also the overhanging question as to whether the political and economic tracks complementing this very agreement are setting it up for failure by design.
On September 3, the United Nations warned that war-torn Libya is at a “decisive turning point,” with weapons from foreign backers pouring into both sides of the conflict. The main foreign protagonists in the Libyan conflict are split into two camps. In one camp is Russia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Egypt, who have been the principal financial and military backers of the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA). In the opposing camp is Turkey and Qatar, who back the UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA).