Posts Tagged ‘sahel’

Egypt holds talks with France about Renaissance Dam, Sahel and Sahara

Senior Egyptian officials held discussions about the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam with French officials on Wednesday, and accused the Ethiopians of being the cause of the current deadlock in the negotiations. The Egypt-France talks were part of the third round of periodic bilateral discussions on African issues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cairo. "The […]

The G5 Sahel Group – Clearly Just an Illusion

The vast Sahel region, stretching across Africa from Senegal to Sudan, has long been the continent’s powder keg. National governments have been able to secure peace here and as a result millions of citizens in Mali, Niger, Burkina-Faso and the other Sahel nations have been forced from their homes and flee en masse to Europe’s […]

What Is France Hiding in the Sahel?

November 09th, 2021 Reexamining and recalibrating its foreign policy towards Africa is something that may not appeal to France right now but it’s something that must be done. By Clinton Nzala Source BAMAKO, MALI — On the 8th of October, Choguel Maïga, the prime minister of Mali, boldly informed the world that its former colonial power, […]

France kills senior Daesh leader in Sahel region

French armed forces have killed the leader of Daesh in the Greater Sahara in what President Emmanuel Macron has hailed as “another major success” in the fight against terror groups in the Sahel region. Adnan Abu Walid Al-Sahrawi was a major Daesh figure in West Africa. After joining the group in 2015 and becoming its […]

News From the Sahel: France and the US Still Helping Themselves

The more idiotic geo-policy analysis I read, the more I wonder where my honorary Ph.D. is. Take a recent Euronews bit concerning “bad old” Russia against “sweet little” France and the Americans in Chad, Mali, and the Sahel region overall. Former Aspen Institute director Nicolas Tenzer now blames Russia for France’s yo-yo policies in the […]

France to Pull More Than 2,000 Troops From Africa’s Sahel

PARIS—France will withdraw more than 2,000 troops from an anti-extremism force in Africa’s Sahel region by early next year and pivot its military presence to specialized regional forces instead, President Emmanuel Macron said Friday. Macron announced last month a future reduction of France’s military presence, arguing that it’s no longer adapted to the needs in […]

Could Chad be a ‘time bomb’ affecting Algeria, Sahel in Africa? – analysis

The death of Chad’s president Idriss Deby, who came to power in 1990, could spell trouble for neighboring areas in Africa’s Sahel region. The Sahel is a swath of geography expanding from Senegal to Somalia that is often a euphemism for instability and infiltration by armed groups, including jihadist.Many publications, from France24 to Brookings to […]

French and Malian troops kill 100 jihadis in offensive in the Sahel

One hundred jihadists were killed in a joint major operation with French forces in January in central Mali, the Malian army confirmed on Tuesday. In a statement, the army said “a hundred terrorists [were] neutralised, about twenty captured and several motorbikes and war material seized” during Operation Eclipse, which was conducted from January 2 to […]

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