Thousands of people fleeing an attack claimed by Islamic State have made their way to safety elsewhere in northern Mozambique, aid workers said, while a small group of victims arrived by boat in neighbouring Tanzania.
Insurgents hit the coastal town of Palma, adjacent to gas projects worth $60 billion, with a three-pronged attack last Wednesday. Fighting continued as recently as Tuesday, security sources involved in rescue efforts and the United Nations said.
Sahel, lac Tchad, Somalie, Sinaï et maintenant Mozambique: l’Afrique est devenue ces dernières années la nouvelle frontière des groupes jihadistes, qui excellent dans l’exploitation des enjeux locaux pour s’implanter et se jouer de la faiblesse des Etats.
Les jihadistes qui tiennent depuis samedi la ville de Palma, dans l’extrême nord-est du Mozambique, constituent le dernier avatar d’une tendance profonde imposant le continent au coeur des priorités des deux centrales jihadistes planétaires.
Israel and Iran are engaged in an undeclared, low-level war involving attacks on ships, facilities and proxy groups Israeli leaders might be seeking to derail efforts by the Biden administration to rejoin the 2015 multilateral Iran nuclear deal.
The conflict could escalate as Iran continues to expand its nuclear activities in violation of the 2015 multilateral Iran nuclear agreement the US left. The U.S. and other powers could potentially be drawn into the conflict as their commercial and national security interests become affected.
The terrorist threat to the United States is extremely diverse in 2021, with many ideologies that motivate violence defying simple categorization.
There are important connectors that facilitate ideological convergence, including anomie, nihilism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, and accelerationism.
There is a growing list of individuals who reflect this “salad bar” of ideologies, combining Salafi-jihadism and white supremacy extremism.
Extremists with a potpourri of grievances, combined with decentralized and diffuse movements, present a difficult security challenge.
In remarks before the Senate Homeland Security Committee in September 2020, FBI Director Christopher Wray described the tendency of some terrorists to be motivated by what he referred to as “a mishmash” or “salad bar” of ideologies, the most prominent feature of which is an attraction to violence. The recently released Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) report on the threat posed by domestic violent extremism (DVE) in 2021 seemed to reference the salad bar analogy when it described “a diverse set of violent extremist ideologies,” adhered to by lone actors and/or small cells of domestic violent extremists (DVEs) as among the most likely to carry out violent attacks in the United States.
According to a leaked draft of the comprehensive strategic partnership agreement, circulated last year, Iran will receive $400 billion dollars in Chinese investments over the next 25 years in key Iranian economic sectors, including energy, telecommunications, defense, infrastructure, banking, petrochemicals, railways and ports. According to the leaked draft, there will be also an expansion of military assistance, training and intelligence-sharing. Nearly 100 projects are cited in the draft. In return, Iran will commit to providing regular and heavily discounted oil, gas and possibly other natural resources to China.
The latest evidence that Iran is continuing to conceal vital elements of its nuclear programme from the outside world suggest that, even if there is a resumption of negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear programme, the regime has little genuine interest in complying with the terms of any future deal.
In another provocative move, Iran’s conservative-dominated parliament has ordered the government to start limiting some inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN-sponsored body responsible for monitoring Iran’s nuclear activities.
Abdelwaheb, médecin urgentiste sur le front contre le Covid-19 en Tunisie, n’a pas été payé depuis des mois. A 35 ans, il se prépare à partir à l’étranger en quête de meilleures conditions de travail, comme la majorité des médecins tunisiens.
La proportion des jeunes diplômés s’exilant à la fin de leurs études, principalement vers la France, l’Allemagne ou les pays du Golfe, ne cesse d’augmenter.
Selon les chiffres de l’Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM), près de de 1 100 migrants ont été interceptés en large des côtes libyennes par les garde-côtes depuis samedi 27 mars. Ils sont renvoyés dans des camps de rétentions à Tripoli où les conditions sont déplorables. Cinq personnes ont péri pendant des opérations de sauvetage mardi et 77 ont été repêchés, selon l’OIM, qui dénonce le renvoi de ces migrants dans un pays en proie au chaos.
Il y a un an, plus de 80 organisations de défense des droits de l’homme et de la presse avaient signé un appel à l’attention de plusieurs présidents africains, leur demandant de libérer les journalistes détenus dans des prisons souvent surpeuplées et dont les prisonniers sont souvent vulnérables à la Covid 19. Au Cameroun, le Comité de protection des journalistes (CPJ) relance le président Paul Biya.
Nouveau pas en Libye pour tourner la page d’une décennie de chaos: 120 prisonniers qui avaient combattu dans le camp de Khalifa Haftar, l’homme fort de l’est du pays, et participé à son offensive contre Tripoli, ont été relâchés mercredi sur fond de réconciliation nationale.
