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After Mali accused the French Army of spying using drones to film a military base, France alleged mercenaries were burying bodies in it as the junta said France did not have a "legal basis" for carrying out military operations in the country. The country's foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop said it will be ending the 2014 defence cooperation agreement with France. Also Read | Russian gas supplies to China soar by 60% in 2022: Report

On Feb. 17, an almost decade-long French mission in Mali ended, with Russia's Wagner Group stepping into the void. But France remains dedicated to the CT mission in Africa, officials say.

Leveraging an African Opportunity for the Counter-Terrorism Fight Sahel is among the worst nightmares for any counter-terrorist expert and planner. It feels like the old saying of getting rid of an enemy through the door before it comes back – regenerated or under a different form – via the window. In some ways the level of danger and violence resembles the early 2000’s with the same type of alliances between the Touaregs of Northern Mali and Al Qaida terror groups which triggered the Malian government to request Paris help to roll back the Islamist threat, The Serval operation in 2013 ...

Counter-terrorism in Africa: resetting a result-based approach under President Biden? Written by Murielle Delaporte - 343 It is of course a bit early to predict the course of action the new US Administration is going to adopt regarding Africa in general, and regarding the fight against terror groups or what is being referred to nowadays as VEOs or Violent Extremist Organizations in that part of the world in particular. Nonetheless, it is possible to highlight some potential trends based on the Biden-Harris team campaign and its first weeks in action, as well as the current geopolitical envir...

Published on 22.12.2020 at 19h21 by APA News Share Mohamed Bazoum, the ruling party candidate and frontrunner in Niger’s December 27 presidential elections has been telling APAnews how his rivals have lost the plot to beat him at the polls.By Special correspondent: Lemin Ould M. Salem It was a late December morning as a hot, dry wind swept through the tarmac of the Mano Dayak International Airport in Agadez. This small but splendid historic city almost entirely built with mud and earth and nicknamed “the door to the desert” by tour operators, once ...