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Cocaine, cannabis and opioids are getting easier to buy as criminal networks and armed groups capitalise on the fragile Sahel region’s “natural stopover point” to Europe on trafficking routes from South America, but authorities with help from ...

Annulling its defence agreements with Washington, the Niamey junta strengthens ties with Moscow and Tehran, Severing military ties with the United States on 16 March, three months after France closed its embassy in Niamey, General Abdourahamane Tianis Conseil national pour la sauvegarde de la patrie (CNSP) is shifting its security and diplomatic focus away from western powers towards Russia, and to a lesser extent, Iran.

The juntas seizure of this key northern city from the Azawad coalition could create more problems than it solves, The victory of Forces armées maliennes (FAMa) and its Russian Wagner Group allies over the Coordination des mouvements de lAzawad (CMA) for control of Kidal on 14 November is a useful political boost for the Bamako junta but not the military turning point that it claims. Most of the CMAs fighters have simply pulled back from Kidal to adjacent areas from where they will continu...

Britain and France back Kigali for now but some of its neighbours are losing patience, The fight for control of eastern Congo-Kinshasa is intensifying in the weeks leading up to the countrys elections due on 20 December. At the centre of it is Rwanda. The Kigali governments continuing support for the M23 militia, and the lack of credence given to its strident denials of this, are complicating its relations with the East African Community and the wider international system.

The global fight against the shadowy, ever-morphing threat posed by the ISIL terrorist group - known officially as Daesh - and its affiliates, remains a long-term game for which there are no quick fixes, the UN counter-terrorism chief told the Security Council earlier this month.

Met with president trump on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly to reaffirm their rejection of the plan referendum and of the serious consequences that would follow if it occurs. but it appears that this outpouring of international condemnation is having the opposite effect on the iraqi kurds. >> the kurds are mountaineers and they are stubborn, so when the world unite against them, the kurds have rallied around the flag, the kurds see they have a good movement and a good international re...

Real time when their systems are targeted and the elephant in the room, if you all, is the 2018 election in whats intimated to be an aggressive cyber response in russia and other countries, bret. >> bret: catherine, thank you. americans have been fighting and dying in afghanistan since shortly after the 9/11 attacks. now they are finally receiving a bit of gratitude from the afghan government, specifically. correspondent lauren green shows us tonight. >> my husband -- i truly feel my heart is in...

Its a path thats being pushed by the regions president and his party. >> this referendum is a democratic process. its to exercise the right of the people to decide their future. >> the kurds are the largest ethnic group in the middle east middle east. without their own country. about 30 million are spread out across turkey, syria, iran, iraq. its the part of the word were a few people can agree on anything, yet this referendum is proving to be the rare exception. one of the only times of the u.s...