Le Secrétaire d’Etat parlementaire auprès du ministre fédéral de la Défense, Dr Thomas Silberhorn, en séjour à Bamako, a eu hier des rencontres avec l’exécutif de la transition. Une occasion pour lui de rassurer Bah N’Daw de la disponibilité de son pays à accompagner le Mali dans cette phase de transition.
Les Touaregs sont-ils une minorité écartée des bénéfices du pouvoir par Bamako ? Ce serait difficile à soutenir. Les Touaregs au sens strict ,qui ne représentent que 1,7% de la population malienne (de 20 millions) ou 3,2% en y agglomérant leurs anciens esclaves, les Bellahs,noirs de même langue tamachèque, bénéficiant plutôt d’une certaine surreprésentation politique, au niveau local, régional et parlementaire. Ils sont également très minoritaires dans la région que certains d’entre eux ont appelée Azawad.
Depuis plus de six ans (mai 2014) que Kidal et sa région se sont mises en marge de la République, hypothéquant ainsi l’intégrité territoriale du pays, c’est toujours le statu quo en ce qui concerne leur retour dans le giron du Mali. Et pourtant, seulement deux mois après cette rupture de ban entre Kidal et le Mali, des pourparlers qui se sont étalés sur plus de onze mois (du 16 juillet 2014 au 20 juin 2015) ont été sanctionnés par un ‘’ACCORD POUR LA PAIX ET LA RECONVILIATION AU MALI ISSU DU PROCESSUS D’ALGER’’.
Sputnik talked to Ahmed Gaddaf al-Dam, the cousin of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, to discuss the health of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Muammar Gaddafi’s son, as well as to discuss the Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya’s participation in the inter-Libyan talks.
Turkish moves suggest attempts to establish a favourable military situation on the ground.
The mysterious and unannounced visit of the head of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez al-Sarraj to Turkey, which has also summoned in haste the Chief of Staff of the GNA forces, Major General Muhammad al-Haddad, raised a number of concerns in eastern Libya.
The US Department of State has cleared the potential sale of Naval Strike Missiles (NSM) anti-ship missile systems originally developed by Norwegian Kongsberg to Romania. Interestingly, they will be purchased from the US government along with the entire command system.
The Justice Department announced charges Monday against Russian intelligence officers in cyberattacks that targeted a French presidential election, the Winter Olympics in South Korea and American businesses. The case implicates the same Kremlin unit that interfered in the 2016 U.S. elections, but is not related to the November vote.
The school curriculum teaches boys that the female sex is inferior and second-class, while it teaches girls to be a slave to a man. — Professor Esergül Balcı, Report from Izmir September 9th University, September 5, 2020.
Until late last month, the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh had been mostly frozen, with occasional skirmishes, for over a quarter of a century. One notable exception was the April 2016 “four-day war,” a brief but intense period of fighting that left over 200 people dead and was followed by claims of victory from both sides. The recent fighting that erupted on Sept. 27 has been much more intense; over 600 soldiers have been killed on the Armenian side alone, along with scores of civilians and an undisclosed number of Azerbaijani personnel.
Action expected in recent months has begun to find its logical explanation in the actions of Ms. Tulsi Gabbard, a congresswoman and member of the US House of Representatives. Ms. Gabbard submitted a resolution to the US House of Representatives to expel Turkey from NATO.