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Somalia: Al-Shabab Raids African Union Army Base
The death toll from the attack on the garrison, southwest of the capital Mogadishu, has not yet been confirmed. But a Somali military commander said both sides suffered large casualties. Islamist al-Shabab fighters attacked an
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Clashes between rival military factions broke out in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Wednesday (24 May) and spilled over into Thursday, effectively undermining the ceasefire agreed to on May 20 after talks in Jeddah mediated by
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Earlier this week, the US declassified information revealing that the Wagner Group was trying to procure weapons for the Kremlin from Africa, specifically Mali. Russia’s Wagner Group has recently provided Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF)
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Libya is in its twelfth year of political turmoil. After almost a decade of civil war, the country currently faces the daunting challenge of selecting a representative government that can unite people from both the
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North Africa morphing into a permanent host destination rather than a transit country on the way to Europe for hundreds of thousands of Sub-Saharan Africans is no news. What is new, however, is a rising
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A couple of weeks after a state institution in Tripoli was stormed by gunmen and a suicide bomber in 2018, I was sitting in a Tunis café with a friend who had been working in
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While a precarious ceasefire has uneasily prevailed in Libya since the end of its third bout of civil war in 2020, the country is increasingly showing signs of an eventual relapse into conflict today. This
Security and Stabilization in Africa: The Sahel
When May 30, 20231:00 pm – 2:30 pm Where Zoom Webinar For More Information Programs Departmentevents@mei.edu202-785-1141 ext. 202 The Africa Study Group and the Middle East Institute are pleased to invite you to the third
Somalia: Terrorist Designation of Al-Shabaab Leaders
The United States continues to support Somalia and our other East African partners in their efforts to disrupt al-Shabaab’s operations. Countering one of al-Qa’ida’s most dangerous affiliates, which has killed thousands of people, including Americans,