Security

Faced with mounting security challenges, Burkina Faso’s authorities are stepping up efforts to reinforce internal security. During a recent cabinet meeting, the government approved a major plan to bolster the national police force. The executive has validated a large-scale recruitment campaign to integrate 2,100 new police officers. According to Commissioner Mahamadou Sana, the plan includes […]

Mediation in the conflict between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda was at the center of discussions at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, April 16. Téte António, Chairperson of the African Union Executive Council and representative of Angola, addressed the Council via videoconference, while UN Special Envoy for the Great […]

On Wednesday, Iraq’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Lebanese ambassador to Iraq, Ali al-Habhab, to protest remarks made by Lebanese President Joseph Aoun regarding Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), also known as Hashd al-Shaabi. In an official statement, the ministry expressed its disapproval of comments made by President Aoun in a recent interview, where […]

On Tuesday, April 15, two senior Pentagon officials were temporarily removed from their posts as part of an investigation into the leak of sensitive information, including U.S. attack plans targeting the Houthis in Yemen. Dan Caldwell, senior advisor to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Darin Selnick, deputy chief of staff, were escorted out of […]

In a speech that was both firm and emotional, former U.S. President Joe Biden spoke out to denounce what he described as a full-scale assault on Social Security by the Trump administration, just 100 days after its return to power. Speaking at a national conference on the protection of social rights, the 82-year-old Biden criticized […]

At least ten Cameroonian soldiers lost their lives and 20 others were wounded in an attack by the terrorist group Boko Haram on a military outpost in the Far North region, local media and security sources report. The attack occurred on Monday night. According to the newspaper L’Œil du Sahel, the assailants ambushed and stormed […]

At least 44 civilians lost their lives and 13 others were wounded, four of them seriously, in a terrorist attack on Friday in Fambita, a village in the Tillabéri region of western Niger. The announcement was made Friday evening by Niger’s Minister of the Interior and Public Security, Mohamed Toumba, on the Télé-Sahel television channel. […]

As part of the drive to strengthen the operational capabilities of the Defense and Security Forces (FDS), a large-scale military exercise, dubbed METROPOLIS 2025, will be held this Friday, March 21, on Ouidah beach. Placed under the supervision of the General Staff of the Beninese Armed Forces and the Republican Police, this simulation aims to […]

On Thursday, Morocco strongly condemned the recent Israeli strikes that have caused hundreds of casualties in the Gaza Strip since Monday. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Resident Abroad, Nasser Bourita, expressed this condemnation “in the strongest terms” at a press conference held at the end of the 1266ᵉ ministerial meeting of […]

The Malian army announced on Tuesday that it had eliminated two terrorist leaders, Ahmad Lamine Ag Hoga and Badaye Ag Elmehfi, during air operations in Kidal, northern Mali, on the night of March 17-18. According to an army statement, the strikes were launched in retaliation for “heinous acts” perpetrated by the two men against “peaceful […]

During the first fortnight of March, several hundred terrorists were “neutralized” during anti-terrorist operations carried out in various localities in Burkina Faso, according to the local press. According to the Agence d’information du Burkina (AIB), quoting the army, ground units, supported by air assets, intensified their fight against armed terrorist groups during this period. “Several […]

Four armed individuals were handed over to the military authorities in the province of Bordj Badji Mokhtar, located in the extreme south of Algeria, close to the Malian border, according to a press release issued on Monday by the Algerian Ministry of Defense. The ministry said that “this large-scale action bears witness to the effectiveness […]

The Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) have neutralized an important foreign terrorist leader known as Abou Houzeifa, also called Hugo, on Sunday. In a statement on Monday, the Malian army informed the national and international community that on Sunday, April 28, 2024, the FAMa conducted a large-scale operation in LIPTAKO (area of INDELIMANE), where they neutralized […]