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In Hombori in the Malan Gourma Desert, a forward-looking operational base now houses three units of the Malian Armed Forces and the desert's tactical group 1 Lamy from the Barkhane Force. Malian and French soldiers will train there in the coming weeks for the purpose of interoperability. The ability to soon be able to fight side by side in the Malian gourmet. .

A whole bunch of 1000's of individuals might have been displaced, in line with the UN, within the Tigray area of Ethiopia. Nearly 50,000 individuals have already fled the combating in Sudan. Refugees are nonetheless arriving, 100 a day. Within the el-Hashaba camp, current arrivals say combating continues in western Tigray.…

The Sudanese army said on Wednesday that it was being transferred by Ethiopian armed forces in the border area and was subject to a suspension between the two countries. A press release shows that she has suffered from "loss of human life and materials". The clashes took place on the return of a Sudanese army patrol around…

French General François Lecointre returned on December 12 from a two-day inspection visit to Niger and Mali, his seventh visit to the Barkhane Force's Operational Theater. The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces went to meet French soldiers and their partners from the Malian armed forces. The possibility of an overview of military operations one month before the anniversary of the Pau summit, 13 January, when a change in the format of French…

The Chief of Staff of the French armies concluded a 48-hour visit on Friday, December 11, to Mali. General Lecointre went north to visit the French and European troops present in this part of the country to fight terrorism. He ended his visit, the first since the coup on August 18, through Bamako, where he met with several transitional authorities.…

More than a month after the outbreak of conflict in Tigray province on November 4, we now know a little more about the role played by the neighborhood of Eritrea. Several sources confirm the Eritrean army's active participation in the fighting against the TPLF, the dissident party that ruled Eritrea, despite the denials of the two capitals.…

It has been ten days since an settlement was signed with the United Nations that help employees would have entry to Tigray, which is going through many shortcomings, however nonetheless nothing has been realized. On Sunday, a UN crew was arrested after being shot. A critical gesture, absolutely adopted by the federal government of Addis Ababa, which refuses to provide full entry to the area.…

The Nigerian authorities have intensified meetings and discussions following the massacre of at least 76 farmers of Boko Haram a week ago in the state of Borno, just twenty kilometers from the city of Maiduguri. The powerlessness of the Nigerian army in the face of the jihadist uprising raging in the north-east of the country has largely been highlighted.…

The hunt for TPLF officials continues in Tigray. One week after announcing the capture of the regional capital Mekele, the federal government is still looking for the leaders of the movement. For its part, TPLF makes sure that the fight is not over.

Italy and Libya signed an settlement on Friday to co-operate within the fields of protection for schooling, well being care and demining actions. Italian Protection Minister Lorenzo Guerini met along with his Libyan counterpart Salahuddin Al-Namroush in Rome, the place they signed the "Joint Technical Army Cooperation Settlement", which renews a deal signed in 2013. It requires the identification of latest methods of collaborating within the discipline of medical well being care, beginning with the…