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MOGADISHU, Somalia - In another bold move this year, the United States Africa Command (US AFRICOM) confirmed conducting airstrikes against Al-Shabaab insurgents. This marks the second time in recent months that they have targeted these militants notorious for causing unrest in the region, with the previous strikes occurring towards the close of the last year. The latest decisive action took place on December 31st and resulted in the elimination of at least a dozen Al-Shabaab operatives. According to US AFRICOM, this…

It has been only seven years, on November 2, that our colleagues from RFI Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon were murdered in Kidal while reporting in this city in northern Mali. Kidnapped and then murdered in the wake, an act claimed by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Its alleged sponsor, Seidane Ag Hitta, is well known to Western and regional intelligence services, members of armed groups in northern…