The United States Ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, has held discussions with the chief of Egypt’s General Intelligence Service (GIS), Abbas Kamel, in Cairo, on the ceasefire efforts in Libya.
Soit notre très cher président de la transition accueilli en grande pompe avait accepté de jouer le rôle de figurant pour cacher les intentions du chef de la junte militaire qui avait tenté milles et une fois de se maintenir à la tête de l’État malien, soit il se hasarde dans un jeu dangereux qui risque de faire tomber le peu d’espoir que beaucoup de Maliens ont placé en lui.
On October 5, Mali’s interim president, retired colonel Bah Ndaw, announced his cabinet. As is frequent in West Africa, it is large, with twenty-five members.
Iranian media has claimed that the country is one of the world leaders in radar technology and Brig.-Gen. Ali Hajizadeh of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that new systems installed in Yazd province illustrate the country’s capabilities.
Iran is growing increasingly concerned about the fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia and Armenia and has continued to issue statements and escalate rhetoric.
Au Mali, toujours pas d’annonce officielle concernant la libération de la Française Sophie Pétronin, enlevée à Gao il y a près de quatre ans. Pour ses proches, c’est encore l’attente. Sébastien Chadaud-Pétronin s’est exprimé sur RFI. Son fils est arrivé à Bamako, mardi après-midi, pour pouvoir être présent en cas de libération de sa mère.
Flight data and satellite images show both nations using large-scale military cargo planes to funnel in goods and fighters to forces or proxies inside Libya, routinely violating the 2011 UN arms embargo despite political promises to abstain.
Reliable SOHR sources have confirmed that an ex-ISIS member, who later joined the “Self-Defence Forces”, killed three members of the “Self-Defence Forces” yesterday in the SDF-controlled city of Al-Karamah town in the eastern countryside of Al-Raqqah province. The “military intelligence service” has arrested the murderer with four other members, where it is found that they are working for ISIS cells.
The head of Russia’s foreign intelligence, Sergei Naryshkin, said: “We have to be concerned about the South Caucasus becoming a new launch pad for international terrorist organisations.”
Washington’s active role is tied by analysts to the influx of foreign mercenaries in Libya and wariness about Russia’s growing role.
Egypt’s involvement in efforts led by the US State Department, represented by its embassy in Tripoli and the acting UN envoy to Libya, US diplomat Stephanie Williams, has surprised observers of Libyan political affairs, given that the US State Department is known for its support of Islamists in western Libya who are opposed to Egyptian authorities and Libyan Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, Cairo’s ally in the east of the country.