Wane was UN assistant secretary-general for peacekeeping and held several high-level African Union posts. Mauritanian diplomat El-Ghassim Wane has been named the new UN envoy to Mali, where he will lead one of the organisation’s

With a small military training program, the United States military has joined efforts to fight a brutal insurgency that has devastated northern Mozambique. American Special Forces soldiers began training Mozambican troops this week as part

Au Sahel, la menace djihadiste tend vers le Sud sahélien dans les pays côtiers comme la Côte d’Ivoire, le Benin… Malgré les engagements des chefs d’Etat sahélien, les Groupes armés terroristes (GAT) constituent toujours une

Deux soldats maliens ont été tués lundi dans une attaque attribuée aux jihadistes dans le nord-est, près des frontières du Burkina Faso et du Niger, a indiqué l’armée dans la nuit. La relève du poste

Kenya will not take part in the hearings due to start on Monday at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on its border dispute with Somalia, the Kenyan government announced in a

Islamist militants have killed about 30 government soldiers in a series of clashes in northeast Nigeria since Wednesday, military and civilian militia sources said on Sunday. Security across Nigeria has been deteriorating in recent months,

The United Nations Security Council called on Friday for the withdrawal of all foreign forces and mercenaries from Libya “without further delay” in a unanimously approved declaration. It also welcomed the Libyan parliament’s approval of

The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday to extend the almost 20,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, with a mandate “to advance a three-year strategic vision to prevent a return to civil war” and

Several South Sudan rebel groups initially left out of the 2018 peace deal have signed a crucial agreement committing to a ceasefire and to rejoin the government. The deal was mediated by the Intergovernmental Authority