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Niger: Military helicopter crashes, three crew members killed

Niger’s ministry of Defense announced Monday the crash of a military helicopter and the death of three members of the crew, during a drill. “This Monday, December 26, 2022, around 10:40 am local time, an MI-17 helicopter of the Nigerien Armed Forces, returning from a routine training flight, crashed while landing on the military runway […]

Libya: Royalists Want UN to Consider Constitutional Monarchy as a Solution

A group of Libyans nostalgic of the country’s past and opposed to Gaddafi loyalists are pushing for the restoration of the 1969 constitution that existed before Muammar Gaddafi’s military coup which put an end to Libya’s monarchy. A conference to rally support to the proposal and draw the attention of the UN Special Mission in […]

AQIM leader, Algerian Abdelmalek Droukdal, killed in Mali

Al Qaeda leader in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Algerian Abdelmalek Droukdal, was killed by French forces and their allied military in an operation in northern Mali, near the Algerian border, French Defense Minister announced on Friday. the key Islamist fighter and mentor of several Sahel jihadist groups that French forces had been hunting for more […]