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The Darfur Joint Forces, acting as substitutes for the Sudanese Army, achieved a significant victory against paramilitary groups in North Darfur, on January 1. They successfully recaptured the town of al-Malha, located in a desert region near the Libyan border and about 200 kilometers from el-Fasher. Al-Malha is strategically important, as it serves as a […]
Egypt’s army has replaced a supply firm to take full control of the imports of strategic commodities such as wheat, in a move that highlights the growing role of the Egyptian armed forces in the economy, Reuters reported. The army will conduct tenders on wheat and other strategic commodities instead of the General Authority for […]
The Sudanese Army says it has regained control of Sinja, a key town to the south of the capital Khartoum. Sinja, a regional capital, had been in the hands of General Hemedti’s paramilitaries for five months. “Sinja has returned to the arms of the nation”: this is how the Sudanese government’s information minister announced the […]
The Mozambican government has threatened to deploy soldiers to quell opposition protests that are gaining momentum in response to the recent presidential election, which incumbent Daniel Chapo of the ruling Frelimo party won, thus extending its five-decade rule. The unrest has engulfed the southern African nation after the opposition rejected the results of the country’s […]
An Algerian air strike killed three Sahrawis from the Polisario-run camps near Tindouf as they were desperately digging for gold, a civil society Sahrawi group FORSATIN reported. The group was seeking a source of revenue amid harsh conditions in the camps and repression by Algerian security services and the Polisario militias, said FORSATIN which backs […]
Nigerian army has, over the past two days, successfully rescued more than 150 “unharmed” pupils and teachers who were abducted by gunmen from a school in the country’s northeast earlier this month. The kidnapping in Kaduna state on 7 March, one of the biggest such attacks in years, has prompted a national outcry over security. […]
The recent surge of new attacks by an Islamic State-affiliated group in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province has been fueled by an influx of Islamist fighters of different nationalities from other parts of Africa, experts and observers warn. After several months of relative calm, Mozambique’s troubled Cabo Delgado province has been, since the beginning of 2024, […]
Sudan’s army-aligned government has announced it won’t attend an extraordinary summit scheduled for 18 January and organized by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), saying its had suspended with the East African, accusing it of “violating” the country’s sovereignty by inviting a rival paramilitary chief to the high-level meeting. This announcement comes as Sudan entered […]
The Malian armed forces, FAMA, announced Tuesday December 26 they dealt blows to radical Islamist militants of Ansar Dine militant group that attacked the Mourdiah Military Base in central Mali. Mourdiah base came under attack on Monday December 25. The militants claimed to have inflicted significant losses on the Malian Armed Forces. In a statement, […]
A Nigerian army drone accidentally killed at least 85 civilians on Sunday in a village in the Kaduna State, northwest Nigeria, according to official sources, marking one of the deadliest military bombings in the country. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu also ordered an investigation on Tuesday after the army admitted that one of its drones targeting […]