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Burkina Faso: search underway for 50 women abducted by jihadists in restive Sahel region

Security forces are searching for at least 50 women that were abducted by suspected Islamist extremists in Burkina Faso’s insurgency-hit northern Sahel region, a regional governor said Monday, January 16. The women were kidnapped on January 12-13 while in the countryside gathering wild fruit near the town of Arbinda in Soum province, Lt. Col. P.F. […]

Libya: UN Chief appoints Lebanese scholar Ghassan Salame as UNSMIL Head

UN Secretary General has confirmed Ghassan Salamé, a Lebanese scholar and Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs, as the new head of UNSMIL, in replacement of German veteran diplomat Martin Kobler. Salamé is not a new name in the circle of the UN Secretariat. The 66-year old man previously worked with former Ghanaian […]

Somalia: scores dead, injured in latest Mogadishu hotel siege by Al-Shabab militants

Sporadic gunfire and explosions rang out Monday (28 November) around a hotel in Somalia’s capital that was attacked by the Al-Shabab group of insurgents a day earlier, reportedly killing at least four people. The Villa Rose Hotel is a popular venue for senior government officials and parliamentarians located a few blocks from the offices of […]