The U.S. military plans to return to Chad within a month for talks about revising an agreement that allows it to keep troops based there, an American general said Wednesday. The U.S. said last month
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Missile and armed drone strikes by Houthi militias and hijackings by Somali pirates have destabilized maritime shipping from the Red Sea to the Western Indian Ocean, impacting security and trade for all of Africa. Attacks
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Dix miliciens membres d’une coalition de groupes armés alliée du régime de Bamako ont été tués lundi par des jihadistes dans le nord du Mali, où l’armée est aux prises avec divers groupes jihadistes et
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Since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which broke out following the deadly attack perpetrated in Israel by Hamas on October 7, 2023, the Houthi Ansar Allah movement
MALI: Des groupes armés déposent leurs armes et équipements, un signe d’espoir pour la paix
Des groupes armés, lassés d’un conflit fratricide sans issue, ont pris la décision courageuse de déposer leurs armes et équipements auprès des forces armées maliennes (FAMa). Cette initiative salutaire, qui s’est déroulée à Aguelhoc dans
The Somali National Army Versus al-Shabaab: A Net Assessment
Abstact: An important question for the future of Somalia is if the African Union withdraws the remainder of its forces from the country by December 31, 2024, would the Somali National Army (SNA) or al-Shabaab
Assessing the Houthi War Effort Since October 2023
Abstract: The Houthis have used the Gaza crisis to vault into the front ranks of the Iran-led “Axis of Resistance,” arguably as the only axis partner to truly globalize the conflict through their anti-shipping attacks
What Is the Extent of Sudan’s Humanitarian Crisis?
A year into the civil war in Sudan, more than eight million people have been displaced, exacerbating an already devastating humanitarian crisis. Sudan has been engulfed in civil war since fighting erupted on April 15,
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A senior U.S. official warned Monday that more than 2 million people in El Fasher, in Sudan’s North Darfur region, are under imminent threat of a “large-scale massacre” from a paramilitary group’s attack and urged
Boko Haram Factional Violence Worries Islamic State – Analysis
In its quest to expand beyond North East Nigeria, JAS–ISWAP clashes aren’t in the global terror group’s interests. In October 2023, Boko Haram’s JAS faction (Jama’atu Ahlis-Sunna Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad) launched major offensives against the group’s