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Africa has surpassed a staggering 155,000 deaths linked to militant Islamist groups over the past decade, according to a new report from the Washington-based Africa Center for Strategic Studies. The report highlights an alarming 60% surge in fatalities since 2023, driven primarily by intensifying insurgencies in the Sahel and Somalia. In the past year alone, […]
Chad’s interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby warned his country mulls withdrawing from a joint task force made up of troops of countries bordering Lake Chad, on the back of a surge in Jihadist attacks. Following a visit to the region of Lake Chad, where 40 Chadian soldiers were killed, Deby suspected Boko Haram militants and […]
The Multinational Joint Task Force in Lake Chad has stepped up operations against Boko Haram and Islamic State terrorists who escaped to Chad and Cameroon, the task force said. The task force has launched a major operation, dubbed Lake Sanity 2, to destroy all terrorist camps around Lake Chad. The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) […]
Cameroon and Nigeria announced they have opted to peacefully settle their decades-long border disputes by 2025 and would thus no longer require the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to consider the case and issue a ruling to settle the matter. Rather, the two nations said, joint delegations will validate a demarcation plan on site to […]
Niger Monday announced the neutralization of 55 terrorists of “Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP)” in a joint operation with neighboring Nigeria. The operation according to the army of the West African country was carried out in the terrorists’ stronghold of Arege, North-east of Nigeria, near the border with Niger. The slain terrorists according to […]
An attack Monday on the village of Bakali, in the Giwa region, by several armed attackers killed at least 25 civilians and injured many others. In addition, fighters from the Islamic State group in West Africa (ISWAP), a branch of Boko Haram affiliated with Islamic State, attacked a military post in the village of Tungushe, […]
At least 30 people were killed and many women and children were abducted Sunday evening by the Islamic State Group in West Africa (ISWAP), near a village close to the capital of Borno State, Maiduguri. The terrorists also burned around 30 vehicles, according to a statement from the local government. Despite the presence of African […]
Assailants from the jihadist group Boko Haram killed at least four people, one soldier and three civilians, and seriously injured four others during an attack on Kofia, a Cameroonian island on Lake Chad. In the attack that occurred in the night from Saturday to Sunday the assailants also destroyed part of a military post and […]
A Moroccan ministerial delegation is taking part in the “Save Lake Chad” conference, which opened in Abuja on February 26 with the aim to raise funds and gather efforts to address the environmental, human and security challenges facing the region. The delegation, sent upon Royal Instructions, includes Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Aziz Akhannouch and Minister […]