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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 Tiani's 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 junta's 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 l'Azawad (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 CMA's fighters have simply pulled back from Kidal to adjacent areas from where they will continue their insurgency against the junta and its army.
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 country's elections due on 20 December. At the centre of it is Rwanda. The Kigali government's 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 Da'esh - 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.