The Islamic State’s Somali branch is still small but steadily growing, due to in part to what United Nations experts describe as an “influx of foreign fighters,” a new report published by the UN Sanctions Monitoring Team for Somalia warns. “Foreign fighters arrive in Puntland [Somalia] using both maritime and overland routes,” says the report, […]
EuroMed Rights NGO has voiced deep concern over the escalating oppression in Kaïs Saïed’s Tunisia which has intensified its campaign of arrests, intimidation, denigration and targeted attacks against political opponents, journalists, trade unionists and civil society representatives. The vocal critics of the Tunisian regime are unfairly accused of conspiracy to undermine state security, corruption, or […]
The Alqaeda-linked JNIM terrorists and Tuareg separatists have joined forces in a series of tactical attacks on the capital Bamako and several localities in Mali’s desert north, a region long treated by Algeria as a buffer zone to export terrorist activities. Led by Iyad Ag Ghali, the JNIM, is an offshoot of Al Qaeda in […]
