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On Monday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken sounded the alarm about Daesh/ISIS leveraging ongoing strife in the Middle East to amplify their grip. He beckoned international allies to ramp up security efforts and maintain regional stability."We are in a period of significant upheaval in the Middle East," Blinken proclaimed during the inauguration of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS ministerial gathering. "It's critical, now more than ever, to bolster our measures to safeguard and stabilize, particularly in Iraq and…

Within the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zoé Kabila Mwanzambala, the deposed governor of Tanganyika province, welcomes the provincial meeting's vote on philosophy. He asks the inhabitants to be calm. Quite the opposite, towards different members of his political and organic household. as reported from the Democratic…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - With more than two months to go before his term expires, Somalia's outgoing President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo seems relentless in his quest to continue in power despite constitutional restrictions and other obstacles to the legal framework. The Constitution strictly allows one to be president for four years, after which he or she can seek a new mandate. The Horn of Africa has no time limits, an indication that one can be president of life until such a time death knocks or he is abdicated. For the…

In Senegal, demonstrations and riots were not only concentrated in Dakar after the affair with Ousmane Sonko, leader of the opposition party Pastef-Les patriotes, who is accused of rape and death threats. Other regions mobilized and rose up to "defend democracy". A struggle that goes beyond the person of Ousmane Sonko, as in Saint-Louis in the north of the country, a city particularly affected by youth…

At the very least 51 civilians have been killed in Nigeria's unrest after days of peaceable protests over police abuses, the president mentioned on Friday, accusing "hooliganism" of the violence, claiming that safety forces have used "excessive restraint". President Muhammadu Buhari's feedback are anticipated to additional stir tensions in Africa's most populous…

The President of Nigeria makes his first public statement on the recent protests against political brutality in the country. Muhammadu Buhari says he regrets the loss of human life but urges young people to stand down. In addition, at least seven people have been killed and 40 more injured in connection with violence between people in a port city in the Ivory Coast near Abidjan since Monday before the…

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday known as for an finish to road protests within the nation as authorities within the business capital Lagos struggled to implement a curfew imposed to comprise anger over a fierce assault on anti-police protesters. Photographs fired and smoke rose from at the very least two fires…

In Sudan, the violence between the Beni Amer and Hadendowa communities within the japanese a part of the nation has not been introduced underneath management. On Wednesday, six individuals have been killed within the port of Suakin throughout clashes between militants following the dismissal of Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok by the bitter Beni governor. Since his appointment, the governor had failed to…

Suspected Islamist militants killed 25 individuals, together with 13 troopers in a number of assaults in central Mali, burned down a military base and ambushed troops despatched as reinforcements, the military and native authorities mentioned on Tuesday. The assaults had been lethal because the August 18 army coup that toppled…