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UK’s new sanctions target Kremlin-linked mercenary groups in Africa

The UK government has announced dozens of new sanctions against Russia, targeting three private mercenary groups in Africa, linked to the Kremlin, and eleven people involved in the Ukraine war and associated with a nerve agent attack on British soil. “Today’s action disrupts the supply of vital equipment for Putin’s war machine and bears down […]

Libya: Terror cell dismantled in Tripoli after deadly clash

Libya’s Office of the Military Prosecutor General has announced the dismantling of a “terrorist” cell in Tripoli’s Al-Andalus district, following a deadly raid by a special Interior Ministry unit. The operation turned violent when members of the cell opened fire, killing three security personnel and wounding another, while two suspects were arrested and one injured. […]

France in face of Algeria’s Frankenstein Syndrome

Relations between France and Algeria have deteriorated to their worst level in decades in a showdown in which French President Emmanuel Macron assumes some responsibility in having sought to reconcile with an Algerian military-led regime that subsists on hostility to anything French. In offering too many concessions to the military regime in Algiers and turning […]