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French president said successes on the ground against extremists meant efforts could be adjusted

Ethiopia has pursued "legitimate" military action in its Tigray province since early November, according Moussa Faki Mahamat, the chairman of the African Union (AU) Commission. Maybe. It does seem that the northern state’s regional forces – the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) – attacked federal military bases on November 4 and may even have executed some surrendering soldiers. Still, one suspects something a bit more complicated afoot inside America’s "strategic linchpin" partner on Africa’s Horn. In fact, that Ethiopia – particularly its Western...

Map of Mali. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Can Mali’s new government regain territorial control and restore personal security? For the past four months, Mali has been governed by a transition government that was set up after a military coup d’état in the summer of 2020. The international community initially condemned the coup, but it has since been forced to accept this reality, and has been encouraging Mali’s military and the transition government to advance the implementation of the 2015 Algiers peace accords.[1] Yet actions taken so far by the military and the new regime do ...

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 ...