terrorism

On tonight's edition: The man accused of orchestrating the deaths in the notorious Shakahola Forest massacre appears in court on terrorism charges. The bodies of hundreds of followers of self-proclaimed religious leader Paul Mackenzie have been exhumed from the Kenyan wilderness. Elsewhere, U.S. troops are withdrawing from their base in Niger's capital, completing a key step in their military-led withdrawal from the country. And hundreds of thousands of families in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado region continue to struggle daily…

Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, the leader of a Kenyan doomsday cult, appeared in court in the Indian Ocean port city of Mombasa on Monday at the start of a high-profile trial over the starvation deaths of more than 400 of his followers. Mackenzie is charged with terrorism and is also accused of murder, manslaughter, kidnapping and child torture, along with 94 other defendants.

Violent clashes between CSP, the permanent strategic framework, which brings together all the signing groups of the 2015 peace agreement, and EIGS, the Islamic State in Greater Sahara, have been going on for almost three weeks. , in the Gao region. , in the…

Since the breakthrough of jihadists in West Africa and the actions of armed groups that have plagued some coastal countries, the countries behind the Accra initiative, launched in 2017, have been working for joint operations in the sub-region. Between March 16…

In Somalia, the loss of life of outgoing MP Amina Mohamed Abdi on Wednesday, March 22, deeply shocked the political class. The repatriation of her physique to Mogadishu on Thursday, as properly as that of one other Member of Parliament who was killed…

Jihadists, armed militias and the armed forces of Mali killed nearly 600 civilians in 2021, the UN said on Thursday, with the number of casualties rising towards the end of the year. In the last six…

On Tuesday, March 22, the National Assembly adopted the calendar of matters selected for the parliamentary session in March. This regular session, which opened on 15 March, will be marked by debates on electoral issues. The country is preparing for the general elections scheduled for 2023. There are also proposals for the fight against insecurity that undermine the eastern part of the DRC. Deputies decided to adapt the bill to the military programming. The ambition is to move away from the logic of an annual budget and…

The Ministry of Defense announced in a press release that three Algerian soldiers were killed on Sunday, March 20, near Timiaouine, in the Borj Badji Mokhtar department near the Malian border, during fighting against terrorists.…

For almost a month, the capital of the province of Soum, in northern Burkina Faso, has been besieged by armed men. Terrorists, who control the roads, prevent people and goods from entering or leaving the city.…

According to a press release from the Armed Forces, published on Monday, March 21, 2022, the attack on Sunday took place about twenty kilometers from Natiaboani, a city south of Fada N'Gourma. The soldiers fell into an ambush while conducting a security…