SECURITY

Faced with mounting security challenges, Burkina Faso’s authorities are stepping up efforts to reinforce internal security. During a recent cabinet meeting, the government approved a major plan to bolster the national police force. The executive has validated a large-scale recruitment…

Mediation in the conflict between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda was at the center of discussions at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, April 16. Téte António, Chairperson of the African Union Executive Council and…

On Wednesday, Iraq’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Lebanese ambassador to Iraq, Ali al-Habhab, to protest remarks made by Lebanese President Joseph Aoun regarding Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), also known as Hashd al-Shaabi. In an official statement, the…

On Tuesday, April 15, two senior Pentagon officials were temporarily removed from their posts as part of an investigation into the leak of sensitive information, including U.S. attack plans targeting the Houthis in Yemen. Dan Caldwell, senior advisor to Secretary…

In a speech that was both firm and emotional, former U.S. President Joe Biden spoke out to denounce what he described as a full-scale assault on Social Security by the Trump administration, just 100 days after its return to power.…

At least ten Cameroonian soldiers lost their lives and 20 others were wounded in an attack by the terrorist group Boko Haram on a military outpost in the Far North region, local media and security sources report. The attack occurred…

At least 44 civilians lost their lives and 13 others were wounded, four of them seriously, in a terrorist attack on Friday in Fambita, a village in the Tillabéri region of western Niger. The announcement was made Friday evening by…

As part of the drive to strengthen the operational capabilities of the Defense and Security Forces (FDS), a large-scale military exercise, dubbed METROPOLIS 2025, will be held this Friday, March 21, on Ouidah beach. Placed under the supervision of the…

On Thursday, Morocco strongly condemned the recent Israeli strikes that have caused hundreds of casualties in the Gaza Strip since Monday. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Resident Abroad, Nasser Bourita, expressed this condemnation “in the strongest…

The Malian army announced on Tuesday that it had eliminated two terrorist leaders, Ahmad Lamine Ag Hoga and Badaye Ag Elmehfi, during air operations in Kidal, northern Mali, on the night of March 17-18. According to an army statement, the…

During the first fortnight of March, several hundred terrorists were “neutralized” during anti-terrorist operations carried out in various localities in Burkina Faso, according to the local press. According to the Agence d’information du Burkina (AIB), quoting the army, ground units,…

Four armed individuals were handed over to the military authorities in the province of Bordj Badji Mokhtar, located in the extreme south of Algeria, close to the Malian border, according to a press release issued on Monday by the Algerian…

The Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) have neutralized an important foreign terrorist leader known as Abou Houzeifa, also called Hugo, on Sunday. In a statement on Monday, the Malian army informed the national and international community that on Sunday, April 28,…