Africa

In the coming weeks, West Africa’s terrorist groups are set to encroach further into Togo, Benin, and Ghana. This year’s presidential elections and their associated impact in Ivory Coast, Guinea, and Togo may create further tensions for terrorist groups to exploit. As part of the United States’ global retreat, military forces have departed from West Africa, leaving the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), France, and the G-5 Sahel to pick up the slack and attempt to prevent the spread of terrorism further into West Africa. But military force alone is not enough. West Africa must provide a test case for innovative and collective preventive diplomacy, which adapts to the growing risks, builds local resilience, and prevents the next security and humanitarian disaster.

Tunisian security forces arrested an Islamic State group (ISIS) sympathizer who was planning terror attacks against vital state institutions in the holy month of Ramadan scheduled to start late this month, the Tunisian interior ministry said in a statement Tuesday.

The area of operations in the campaign against IS/Daesh will be shifting to another theater and analysts have noticed snippets of where the shift will be moving towards.

The principles behind the anti-extremism scheme Prevent may not be as controversial among British Muslims as thought, a survey suggests.

Tunisian Ministry of Interior Spokesman Hossam Eddine Djababli confirmed the death of two senior terrorists in security operations in the country’s western Kasserine governorate.

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok says he is safe following an assassination attempt Monday in Khartoum. Eyewitnesses say car bombs went off near the prime minister’s convoy as he traveled to his office. Afterward, hundreds of protesters gathered at the scene of the blasts, condemning what they called a terrorist attack.

Six soldats maliens ont été tués dimanche nuit suite à l’attaque de leur base par des assaillants armés non identifiés à Mondoro, au centre du Mali, a annoncé lundi un communiqué des Forces armées maliennes (FAMa).

Au moins 15 terroristes ont été « neutralisés » cette semaine par les forces armées du Niger, avec l’appui des partenaires, dans la zone nord de Tillabéry (ouest), proche de la frontière avec le Mali, a annoncé dimanche le ministre nigérien de la Défense, Issoufou Katambé, dans un communiqué lu à la radio publique du pays.

Les FAMa ont détruit deux colonnes de véhicules et de motos terroristes à Mondoro. Deux sites de regroupement des terroristes ont aussi été détruits. Cela fait suite à une attaque des GAT contre les FAMa dans la nuit du 1er mars 2020 aux environs de 22 heures. Au cours de cette opération, les FAMa déplorent 6 morts, 10 blessés et des engins endommagés.