Terrorisme: un projet de loi mal pensé de plus

Algorithme, suivi des radicalisés: le projet de loi «terrorisme et renseignement» présente des mesures insuffisantes

Quoi qu’on veuille nous faire croire, la sortie précipitée de ce projet apparaît comme un contre-feu de “com” après l’attentat de Rambouillet, point d’orgue d’une semaine calamiteuse où Macron qui voulait nous jouer “plus sécuritaire que moi, tu meurs”, a, en fait, reçu en pleine face le choc de la dure réalité réduisant à néant son prétendu combat « pour une vie paisible », annoncé à Montpellier devant les policiers et qui se heurtait « en même temps » et presque au même endroit à une fusillade où un homme était criblé de balles…

“Quand on est française, on ne porte pas un hijab”

Entretien avec Lydia Guirous, qui publie Assimilation, en finir avec ce tabou français (Editions de l’Observatoire, 2021). Le retour dans le débat de la notion clivante d’assimilation est-il un phénomène de mode ou peut-on envisager des traductions dans le réel?

Née en Kabylie, arrivée à l’âge de six ans à Roubaix et d’origine modeste, Lydia Guirous a un parcours politique singulier. Après avoir évolué dans sa jeunesse dans les milieux associatifs, où elle détonne, voilà presque dix ans qu’elle est en politique, à droite. Son nouvel essai, Assimilation, en finir avec ce tabou français, disponible en librairies, aborde une question très présente dans le débat français actuel. Question sur laquelle ses positions courageuses sont connues depuis longtemps. Elle les y précise.

Central African troops and Russian mercenaries accused of abuses in anti-rebel offensive

Central African Republic’s army and its allies have driven back a rebel group that seized towns around the country amid contested elections in December, but rights groups and residents told The New Humanitarian they committed a string of abuses in the process.

“I cannot file a complaint – against whom would I file it?” said a 32-year-old truck driver who was shot at in December from a checkpoint allegedly controlled by Russian mercenaries and Central African soldiers outside the northeastern town of Grimari.

Nigerian Capital Alert over Fresh Boko Haram Threats

Forty-one-year-old Enoch Obemeasor is more alert this week on his daily two-hour commute from his home in Tafa village, Niger state, to the Nigerian capital for his printing business.

Niger state authorities on Monday said Boko Haram militants attacked the town of Kaure, abducted women, sent thousands fleeing, and hoisted their flag.

Obemeasor said the security threat means it’s not safe to drive at night.

Sudan says ready to implement security arrangements

The Chairman of the Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, announced the readiness of the security committees to gather former rebel forces in the cantonment sites as provided in the Juba peace agreement.

Under the peace agreement signed between the Sudanese government and the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF)’s factions on October 3, 2020, the assembling of forces should have taken place two months after the signing of the agreement, but the step was delayed for months, due to lack of funding.

Kenya revises refugee camp closure to June 2022

Kenya on Thursday rescheduled its planned closure of refugee camps to June next year, following discussions with the UN Refugee Agency to stagger the shut-down.

As such Kakuma and Dadaab Refugee camps will be closed down by June next year, allowing refugees time to leave gradually rather than in masses.

Gunmen kill 18 in Burkina Faso attack, force many to flee

The attack in Yattakou village also left one person severely wounded and displaced residents, local governor says.

A local official in northern Burkina Faso has said at least 18 people were killed and one seriously wounded in an attack this week that also caused “massive displacement”.

Salfo Kabore, governor of Seno province located in conflict-hit Burkina Faso’s Sahel region, said unidentified gunmen carried out the attack on Monday in Yattakou village.

Talks with Sahel extremists: Taboo, or a path toward peace?

Why We Wrote This

What costs are acceptable to pay for peace? A handful of local negotiations with insurgents in the Sahel puts a spotlight on a debate about whether to talk with militants.

The Sahel is awash in jihadi insurgencies. From Nigeria to Mali, the stakes are high. About a million people have been displaced by conflict in Burkina Faso alone, where hundreds of people have died.

Growth in Burkina Faso gold mining fuels human trafficking

For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing, hauling the 27-year-old from one gold mine encampment to the next, where each night she was forced to sleep with dozens of men for less than $2 a person.

The madam who lured Blessing to the landlocked West African nation of Burkina Faso with promises of a hair salon job, threatened to kill her if she tried to run away.

10,000 Angolans flee to Namibia due to drought

More than 10,000 Angolans have taken refuge in Namibia due to the drought, an official said Wednesday.

Angola shares a 1,100km border with Namibia in the provinces of Cunene, Namibe and Cuando Cubango.

The border is porous and allows easy illegal crossings.