In early May, a high-speed boat pulled alongside the Rio Mitong, a Panama-flagged cargo vessel, just off the coast of Equatorial Guinea. Using ladders to board the ship, a group of assailants kidnapped two crew
Kenya and Somalia’s Long-Simmering Territorial Dispute Threatens to Boil Over
Somalia’s semiautonomous Jubbaland region has become a proxy battleground in a Kenya-Somalia maritime dispute that is rooted in a disagreement over which direction the border between the two countries extends into the Indian Ocean.
Mali : Coopération Mali-France : la visite de Jean-Yves Le Drian au Mali reporté de trois jours
Le chef de la diplomatie française, Jean-Yves Le Drian qui devait se rendre jeudi à Bamako, a reporté son voyage à dimanche en raison d’un incident technique, a-t-on annoncé dans son entourage. Le Falcon dans
Mali : Sous l’air froid des bureaux : canne blanche pour Assimi Goïta et ses affidés
Du haut de sa position du vice-président de la transition, le Colonel Assimi Goïta et ses affidés portent en parfaite symbiose pour exercer une pression colossale au sommet de l’État. Pas en termes du bon
Mali: Série de rencontres à la Garde Nationale du Mali : le Colonel Élysée Jean Dao très satisfait des partenaires stratégiques de la MINUSMA et Barkhane
Le représentant de la composante police de la MINUSMA, le Général de police Issoufou Yacouba et le représentant de Barkhane au Mali, le général de Brigade Vidal Alain ont effectué des rencontres successives avec le
Little progress on disputed Abyei region between Sudan and South Sudan
Jean-Pierre Lacroix briefed ambassadors on recent developments concerning the oil-rich border area, where the UN interim security force, UNISFA, has been deployed since 2011 to protect civilians and humanitarians.
Mali’s army liberates village besieged by jihadists: army statement
Mali’s military has regained control of a village in the centre of the country where more than 2,000 residents have been besieged by suspected Islamist militants for two weeks, it said in a statement on
UN Rights Chief Calls for Justice After Nigerian Soldiers Kill Protesters
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michele Bachelet strongly condemns what she says was the excessive and disproportionate use of force by Nigerian armed forces against peaceful protesters in the capital Lagos on Tuesday, and
Amnesty denounces impunity for CAR warlords
Amnesty International on Thursday denounced the impunity it says warlords who have carved up the Central African Republic and control most of the country after seven years of civil war enjoy.
Libyan factions sign countrywide UN-brokered cease-fire
The rival sides in Libya’s conflict signed a permanent cease-fire Friday, a deal the United Nations billed as historic after years of fighting that has split the North African country in two. But skepticism over