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Nigerian military chief Ibrahim Attahiru, 54, died on Friday in an air pressure crash close to Kaduna airport within the northwest of the nation. as reported from Lagos, Liza FabbianThe Nigerian military chief misplaced his life throughout an official go to to Kaduna State in northwestern Nigeria.Movies from the drama present a…

Ivorian Protection Minister Téné Birahima Ouattara, who was appointed simply over a month in the past, has simply accomplished a regional tour that took him to Ouagadougou and Bamako. Côte d'Ivoire has been combating jihadism since 2016 and has been concerned in two assaults in a single yr in Kafolo, close to the Burkinabè border, which killed a whole of about twenty individuals. Ivory Coast…

In West Africa, the international locations of the Gulf of Guinea worry a jihadist an infection. The presence of terrorist cells in southern Burkina Faso worries border states: Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo and Ghana. On this context, Ghana, an English-speaking nation surrounded by French-speaking neighbors, is deepening its army cooperation with Paris. About forty troopers from the nation's elite items…

Protection Minister Daoud Yaya Brahim mentioned at a press convention on Could 6, 2021 that the state of affairs is "underneath whole management" in Kanem and search operations are nonetheless ongoing. On this province, preventing has plagued Western forces in Chad and the fact-rebels since April 11, election day. as reported…

Sadly, we're dealing with a brand new illustration of a coverage that, in truth, goals to take away each opposition and each discordant voice in Benin. Sadly, this has penalties as a result of the particular person we're defending is in an especially fragile state, remoted, with out the potential for having a honest trial. And there's a sense that President Talon is sweeping the rule of regulation with worrying ease. It is clearly as much as him to repair the process, to repair the destiny of the…

Final yr, regardless of Covid, army spending elevated worldwide. If Africa is the continent the place spending is lowest, it is usually the place it elevated essentially the most final yr. That is identified in a latest report from Sipri, Stockholm Worldwide Peace Analysis Institute, an institute that may be very all for this concern.…

In Nigeria, 31 troopers have been killed on Sunday, April 25, authorities stated. These answerable for the assault are believed to be the jihadists from the Islamic State group in West Africa. Nigerian troopers are stated to have been ambushed. Based on the Nigerian military, the navy convoy of about twenty automobiles was…

A Somali defense official threatens to take over Mogadishu Airport MOGADISHU, Somalia - A senior Somali defense official has threatened to take over Aden Abdulle International Airport, commonly known as Mogadishu Airport, and has rejected the decision of the House of Commons to extend President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo's reign. The lower house quickly extended Farmajo's mandate amid…

The Chadian army carried out airstrikes on Monday morning targeting a column of rebels in the northern Tibesti massif city of Zouarké, 1,000 km from Ndjamena. A military source confirmed these strikes against RFI, indicating that "the enemy has been treated". According to a witness, two MiG-21s hit the city of Zouarké on Monday…

The trial of the bombing of the French military camp Bouaké in Côte d'Ivoire in 2004, which left ten dead (nine French soldiers and one American civilian), enters its third and final week on Monday before the Assize Court in Paris. The French politicians of the time will be heard as witnesses: Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and three ministers.…