assassination

Paris on Friday confirmed the death on June 5 of Baye ag Bakabo, the alleged leader of the command that had kidnapped our colleagues from RFI, Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, on November 2, 2013 in Kidal, northern Mali. With his death, only one member of the command remains alive and one of the alleged co-organizers of the kidnapping.…

Former President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud survives the assassination in Somalia MOGADISHU, Somalia - Former President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud survived a murder on Wednesday night, his aides said, in what could further worsen relations between the federal government and the opposition, which recently signed an election pact. Eyewitnesses said the former president's convoy came under attack from…

In Mali, the president of the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), a coalition of former rebel movements from the north, was assassinated on Tuesday morning, April 13. Sidi Brahim Ould Sidatia was shot dead near his home in Bamako by two still unidentified men. The shock is still great two days after the murder of Sidi…

In Tunisia, civil society figures condemn the words of an Islamist deputy who justified the assassination in France of history professor Samuel Paty. Coming from academia, research, or the art world, about forty of them have signed an unequivocal petition to condemn dumb remarks and demand justice. The signatories, primarily from progressive and modernist academia, find it scandalous that a member of the nation can afford to justify death by beheading of French teacher, reports our correspondent in Tunis, Michel Picard.…

The beheading of Samuel Paty provoked robust reactions inside the political class and on the Tunisian social networks. The phrases of a deputy justifying the killers' intentions created the scandal, whereas however there have been studies of condemnation of the act, particularly the conservative celebration Ennahda. as reported…