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Côte d’Ivoire: Northern border communities face rising extremist threat following aid suspension

Border communities in northern Côte d’Ivoire find themselves increasingly vulnerable as counterterrorism funding crucial to preventing extremist expansion has been suspended. The $20 million US-funded initiative, which supported dozens of villages like Kimbirila-Nord, looking like a front line of the global fight against extremism, has ended amid sweeping foreign aid cuts, leaving residents concerned about […]

Cameroon secessionist leaders jailed for life

In Cameroon, ten separatists have been handed life sentences by a military court sitting in the capital, Yaounde. The leader of the most known separatist group, the Southern Cameroon National Council, SCNC, Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, is among the convicts. Ayuk Tabe was the first self-proclaimed president of “Ambazonia”, a breakaway state declared in October 2017 […]

Algeria’s Sonatrach expands for 10 years gas exports to Italy’s ENEL

Algeria’s gas giant Sonatrach will continue supplying Italian natural gas distributor, ENEL Group, for additional 10 years under an agreement between the two sides signed on Wednesday. The deal cements tight cooperation between the state-run gas company and the Rome-based multinational. The partnership dates back to 1991. The new deal will end in 2028, Sonatrach […]