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Mali foils alleged coup with foreign ties, with generals and French ‘agent’ arrested

Mali’s transitional government says it has thwarted an attempted coup, arresting two high-ranking military generals and a suspected French intelligence agent in what it describes as a plot backed by foreign powers to destabilize the state. Security Minister General Daoud Aly Mohammedine announced the arrests Thursday (14 August), confirming speculation that had been circulating for […]

Several Congolese military top commanders in administrative detention in wake of Brazzaville November stampede

Three top commanders of the Congo’s army have been detained in connection with the late November stampede in capital Brazzaville that killed dozens of youth during a recruitment of the Army. As many as 37 died on November 21 at Michel-Ornano Stadium in Brazzaville on the eve of a recruitment process by the Army. The […]

Autonomy Plan is ‘most credible and widely-endorsed’ proposal to settle Sahara issue (British Think Tank)

The autonomy plan submitted by Morocco to settle the artificial conflict over its territorial integrity is the “most credible and widely endorsed” proposal for resolving this regional dispute, states the Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum (MENAF), a think-tank reporting to the prestigious University of Cambridge. In a report, the think tank recalls the […]