Sahel
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Aug- 2020 -7 AugustAfrica
Almost 150 Extrajudicial Killings by Malian, Burkinabe Troops: UN
Almost 150 people were extrajudicially killed by Malian and Burkinabe security forces in Mali between April and June.
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4 AugustCommentary
Security Startups: Rethinking Security Sector Reform in the Sahel
The post-pandemic world, with states and institutions on edge, requires a new approach to security cooperation, especially in the Sahel.
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Jul- 2020 -31 JulyAfrica
Al-Qaeda-Linked Group Claims Attack on French Forces in Mali
Al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadists in Mali claimed responsibility on Thursday for a suicide raid on French forces in the north of the Sahel state this month, which left one soldier dead.
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1 JulyAfrica
Sahel Allies, France Highlight Progress in Anti-Jihad Campaign
Sahel countries and their ally France on Tuesday vowed to press ahead with a tactical shift in their campaign against an eight-year-old jihadist insurgency.
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Jun- 2020 -22 JuneAfrica
Ivory Coast Says It Has Captured Jihadist Leader Behind Border Attack
Ivory Coast said it had captured a jihadist who led a deadly attack on a border post and arrested a 'very large' number of his subordinates.
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12 JuneMiddle East
‘Capture Not Possible:’ France’s Desert Operation Against Al-Qaeda Chief
The French military, for the first time, provided details on Thursday of how late last week it 'neutralized' Abdelmalek Droukdel, the 'the third deputy' of Al-Qaeda's leader.
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11 JuneAfrica
About 10 Dead in Jihadist Attack on I.Coast Border Post: Security Sources
Suspected jihadists attacked a frontier post on Ivory Coast's border with Burkina Faso overnight, killing around 10 people, security sources said Thursday.
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8 JuneAfrica
Three Top Jihadists Dominate Sahel After Al-Qaeda Leader Death
Three leaders have been left dominating the jihadist insurgency in the Sahel, following the death of a top al-Qaeda commander in the West African state of Mali last week.
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May- 2020 -21 MayAfrica
Worried Togo Finds Itself on Front Line of Sahel’s Jihadist War
In a makeshift bunker of sacks of rice beneath a tree, heavily-armed Togolese soldiers keep watch over villagers coming and going on foot or bike across the border with Burkina Faso. Just a dried-out river bed separates the two West African countries. In surrounding fields, peasant farmers are bent silhouettes, watering the sorghum and maize seeds sown before the arrival of the first rains. Soon, clouds will chase away the fine dust of the harmattan, the desert wind that each year sweeps off the Sahara southwards to the coast and chokes the air. Nothing dramatic, or so it would seem, ever happens at Yemboate, in Togo’s far north. Yet less than 30 kilometers (19 miles) away, over the border in eastern Burkina Faso, jihadists and militia groups have imposed their own brutal law. Those policemen, doctors, and teachers who have not fled are being hunted down and butchered. “When I was small, we spent our time swimming in the river,” says farmer Abdoulaye Mossi, leaning on his bike with a hoe, speaking to AFP before the coronavirus pandemic. The arid channel separates his peaceful village of cob huts from a Burkinabe village on the other side. “Fear rules today,” the farmer says. But fear does …
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Apr- 2020 -20 AprilAfrica
Burkina Faso security forces accused of executing 31 detainees in Djibo
Burkina Faso's security forces allegedly executed 31 unarmed detainees in the northern town of Djibo, Human Rights Watch said
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