Mali : Aly Tounkara du CE3SS, parle du dialogue avec les terroristes : “Le dialogue va avec l’action militaire”

La situation sécuritaire se dégrade de jour en jour au Mali et au Sahel de façon générale malgré les gigantesques moyens militaires mis en œuvre. Pour sortir de ce cycle infernal, les autorités maliennes ont rappelé la nécessité d’un dialogue avec les groupés armés non conventionnels, comme suggéré lors de la Conférence d’Entente nationale (2017) et le Dialogue national inclusif (2019). Cependant, la France un partenaire stratégique du Mali dans la lutte contre les groupes radicaux, voit d’un mauvais œil cette approche. Négocier avec les groupes terroristes serait-il un aveu d’échec contre la stratégie de sécurisation ? Aly Tounkara, directeur du Centre des Études sécuritaires et stratégiques au Sahel (CE3S) nous livre son analyse.

Autriche: un leader est né

L’attentat de Vienne a propulsé Sebastian Kurz, le jeune chancelier de l’Autriche, au centre de l’attention médiatique. En quelques jours, l’enfant prodige de la politique autrichienne a acquis, grâce à sa fermeté face à l’islamisme, la stature d’un leader européen. Portrait.

The U.S. Desperately Needs a Strategy to Deal With Russia’s Mercenary Armies

Reports this week that the United Arab Emirates is potentially financing Russian mercenaries in Libya affiliated with the notorious Wagner Group, according to a Pentagon watchdog, appear to be sending mini shockwaves through Washington. But the UAE has long had a fixation on mercenaries, and the fact that Russia is a regular supplier of soldiers of fortune should surprise no one. Much more worrying is the lack of policy coherence in Washington on what to do about it.

Tunisian authorities wave threat of force in face of protests

Unrest has disrupted production and caused shortages in vital materials such as cooking gas and petrol.

Social protests, accompanied with disruption of production of vital resources in several parts of the country, prompted the Tunisian government to threaten to use force to deal with the spreading chaos.

Al-Qaeda fighters in Syria return to Yemen’s Marib

Tribal sources have disclosed that a number of Al-Qaeda leaders and fighters have returned to the Yemeni province of Marib from Syria in recent days, according to the Yemen News Portal.

The Al-Qaeda elements have reportedly arrived in Marib through the coast of Shabwah with many returnees from Syria settling in the two Yemeni provinces. The sources did not rule out whether these groups were linked in any way to factions supported by Turkey in Syria, amid suggestions by some Gulf news outlets that it has the intention to intervene in Yemen.

Germany bans far-right ‘Wolf Brigade 44’; finds weapons, Nazi symbols

“There is no place in our country for a group that sows hate and propagates the re-establishment of a Nazi state,” Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said.

Police found a crossbow, machete, knives and Nazi symbols in early-morning raids on Tuesday after banning a far-right extremist group called “Wolf Brigade 44” which the government says wants a Nazi state.