Tombouctou sous blocus des djihadistes, des dégâts énormes

Le blocage de la ville de Tombouctou par les djihadistes du Groupe de soutien à l’islam et aux musulmans fait exploser les prix des denrées alimentaires.

C’est un blocus qui fait souffrir les habitants de Tombouctou, dans le nord du Mali. De sources sécuritaires et locales au sein de la société civile de la ville contactées par la DW, les djihadistes du Groupe de soutien à l’islam et aux musulmans, le JNIM, seraient alliés localement avec les touaregs de la Coordination des mouvements de l’Azawad (CMA) et encerclent la ville de Tombouctou. De son côté, la CMA dément* cette information et assure qu’elle n’est ni de près ni de loin associée au JNIM.

Best Practices for Investigating Culprits of War, Human Rights Abuses, and Other Conflict

With little more than, say, a five-second social video clip of a refugee lying in a farmer’s field, you can find out what government was responsible for a civilian killing. In this case from 2020, investigators at Bellingcat used the direction of crop furrows beneath the man’s body, the length of the shadows, and the gap between the “crack” and “bang” of the gunshot to link the shooting of a Pakistani refugee to Greek security forces near the Turkish border.

Saudi Arabia: Mass Killings Of Migrants At Yemen Border, Says HRW

Saudi border guards have killed at least hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers who tried to cross the Yemen-Saudi border between March 2022 and June 2023, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report. If committed as part of a Saudi government policy to murder migrants, these killings, which appear to continue, would be a crime against humanity.

Experts react: What the Prigozhin plane crash reveals about Putin, the Wagner Group’s future, and the war in Ukraine

It was easier to approach Moscow in June than to leave it in August. Wagner Group mercenary leader Yevgeniy Prigozhin, who staged a short-lived mutiny against the Russian military two months ago, was reportedly killed in a plane crash along with nine other passengers on Wednesday while traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg, according to Russian authorities and Wagner-affiliated Telegram groups. Some reports have indicated that the plane was downed by Russian air defenses. Just hours earlier, General Sergei Surovikin, who allegedly had advance knowledge of the Wagner mutiny and had not been seen in public since it occurred, was removed from his post as head of Russia’s air force.

SPECIAL REPORT – WAGNER GROUP: The Evolution of a Private Army

In an astonishing turn of events starNng 23 June 2023, the Wagner Group’s leader Yevgeny Prigozhin declared all-out war on the Russian state, leading a convoy of mercenaries to march straight toward Moscow. The muNny, which embarrassed Russian President Vladimir PuNn and caught the Russian military and security services completely off guard, developed at lightning speed and ended just as quickly, leading to widespread confusion and chaos. Ager storming through towns and ciNes in southern Russia, largely unopposed and in many cases welcomed by locals, Wagner troops announced a sudden return to their field camps, following a deal cut by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Under the terms of the deal, Prigozhin accepted exile in Belarus, leaving the future of Wagner very much in quesNon. This special report puts the Wagner Group into perspecNve and foreshadows the factors that will shape what happens next.

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