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A UN agency announced on Monday that more than 10,000 people have fled their homes in western Niger in the past two days due to attacks by local officials blaming extremists. The report, sent to the Agence France-Presse (AFP) by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Niamey, follows statements over the weekend from local residents and elected officials describing waves of people fleeing the Anzourou area. "11,000 people (1,624 households) sought refuge in the…

Whereas the humanitarian scenario stays essential in Cabo Delgado following the terrorist assaults in Palma, there may be a scarcity of economic sources to offer help to displaced individuals. Nonetheless, Pemba, the capital of this northernmost province in Mozambique, continues to obtain displaced individuals who, after a journey, are strewn with pitfalls looking for assist.…

The military confirmed this Tuesday, Might 11, {that a} dozen devoted had been kidnapped within the Katsina area, northwest of the nation. In northeastern Nigeria, town of Maiduguri was focused for a Boko Haram assault on Tuesday night time. as reported from Lagos, Liza FabbianExcessive explosions and gunfire erupted Tuesday…

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…

In Burkina Faso, not less than three civilians have been killed within the village of Tin-Akoff on Saturday evening. Two individuals have been nonetheless lacking on Sunday. In response to safety sources, a number of concessions are lit. As well as, three troopers have been injured when their automobile hit an improvised explosive gadget on the Seba-Mansila axis.…

Kidnapping is on the rise in Nigeria. About thirty Afaka college students, kidnapped two months in the past, have been lastly reunited with their households two days in the past. One among these former hostages, Fatima, who was pregnant throughout the kidnapping, instructed RFI a Hausa concerning the ordeal they have been subjected to throughout their captivity.…

"This French journalist who works in Mali appeared in an nameless video recording that was broadcast on social networks yesterday, notes the web site, amongst different issues. Sahara Media, indicating that he was kidnapped in Mali in early April. The French International Ministry confirmed the kidnapping. (...) On this video, Sahara Media continues, Olivier Dubois, 46, declared kidnapped on April 8 within the Gao area by…

In a video revealed on Wednesday, Could 5 on social networks, the French journalist Olivier Dubois claims to be the hostage of the jihadists from the Assist Group for Islam and Muslims. How did he find yourself there? Who's his catcher? How did the kidnapping happen? RFI appears to be like again on the final moments earlier than the kidnapping.…

A Frenchman is at the moment being held hostage in Mali. The impartial journalist Olivier Dubois had not given any information in three weeks. He appeared on Tuesday, Could 4, on a video circulating on social networks confirming his kidnapping of JNIM, the "Islamist and Muslim group" in Arabic. On this 21-second video, which…

In Burkina Faso, a minimum of 30 civilians had been killed on Monday, Could 3, within the assault on the Kodyel farmland, within the Foutouri division, about 145 km from Fada Ngourma within the japanese area. Unidentified armed males invaded the village very early yesterday morning and attacked the inhabitants, regardless of the voluntary efforts for the protection of the fatherland, the civilian aides…