«Alors que M. Yakub continuait à prêcher pour les convertis, il a dit à son peuple qu’il ferait travailler les autres pour eux. (Cette promesse s’est réalisée.) Naturellement, il y a toujours des gens autour
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UN hosts humanitarian talks in Geneva, as Sudanese army leader refuses to participate
The United Nations confirmed the arrival of delegations from the warring Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Geneva for indirect discussions aimed at facilitating humanitarian aid delivery and civilian protection. However,
RSF assassinate five civilians, destroy university college in Dinder
The Al-Dinder Emergency Room in Sennar state, southeast Sudan, said that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) destroyed a university college, assassinated five civilians, and injured dozens during their attack on the surrounding villages. By the
Soft Targets, Porous Borders: Why Niger Republic Terrorists Are Trooping Into Nigeria
They take advantage of the porous borders to launch deadly attacks in northwestern Nigeria and extort people who are mostly unprotected in the area — sometimes colluding with local terrorists. With armed and menacing groups
Before IPOB, There Was MASSOB: Nigeria’s Long History Of Biafran Nationalism
Since Nigeria’s civil war ended decades ago, many groups have continued to advocate for the secession of a Biafran Republic. Today, IPOB is the loudest voice. That title, however, used to belong to another group
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Analysis: The Cairo summit marked a significant step towards unifying the Sudanese political position to end the war, but huge challenges remain. Rival Sudanese stakeholders convened in Cairo on Saturday to chart a roadmap for
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“Our people have irrevocably turned their backs on ECOWAS,” Niger’s ruling General Abdourahamane Tiani told the cheering crowd that attended the Niamey summit. On the 6th of July, the military heads of Mali, Burkina Faso
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Patterns in the Sahel’s coups provide guidelines to building effective democracies. Three years of coups around Africa’s Sahel region — eight of them in six nations, from Guinea on the Atlantic to Sudan on the
For Sahel Stability, U.S. Needs Broader, Coordinated Policy
U.S. efforts can advance peace with a wider scope, deeper integration to its efforts. As military coups and violent insurgencies have spread across Africa’s Sahel over the past decade, U.S. policy has professed to recognize