Joint Operation Kills 100 Extremists in the Sahel
The French-led Task Force in the Sahel continues to exchange blows with region extremist groups in an ongoing battle for sub-Saharan Africa.
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France Looking to Reduce Troop Levels in the Sahel
The French forces in the Sahel have made little progress during their seven years in country leading critics to see it as an unwinnable war.
Guns or Greed in Central Africa: What Needs to be Silenced?
Conflict in Central Africa boils down to a contest between state and non-state actors on who gets what; gaining weapons is a means to an end.
‘The Game Has Changed’: Iranian Terror Network in Africa
On January 2nd, SECDEF Mark Esper, following the U.S. airstrike assassination of Gen. Qaseem Soleimani, stated: “the game has changed.”
Suspecting human rights abuses in the Sahel, US threatens support to partners
The United States released a statement on Thursday addressing the increase of alleged human rights abuses by state security forces in West Africa and the Sahel. According to the statement, the U.S. was “deeply concerned” about these allegations and said that they must be addressed or else assistance from Washington could be at risk. Part […]
G5 Sahel summit needs to address terrorism and instability in West Africa
Despite some modest military gains by the governments in the past few months, the political instability in many West African nations, especially in Burkina Faso and Mali, could risk all of that and plunge the entire region into chaos. The members of the G5 Sahel are holding a summit in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott […]
Defeating terrorism in the Sahel requires all facets of government
Several interconnected conflicts are raging in several countries in the Sahel region of Africa. And yet for much of the world, this hasn’t registered as either noteworthy or very important. But it is, and not just to the countries involved. Just in 2019 alone, over 4,000 people were killed in terror attacks in the Sahel. […]
French cajole Chadian partners to continue counterterrorism fight
France and the countries of G5 Sahel — Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Mauritania — have requested that Chad, also a member of the coalition, continues to take part in it. The G5 countries also “highlighted the importance of sending a Chadian battalion to the Three-Borders area as soon as possible,” according to a joint […]
Su-25 accidentally fires missile while on ground, misses parked C-130, kills 5
A Russian-made Su-25, belonging to the Chadian Air Force accidentally fired a missile that veered into a senior Chadian commander’s home, killing five people including three children. The video footage captures the firing of the missile at the Adji Kossei airbase as the aircraft was preparing to take off. The missile clips an empty fuel […]
A religious war: Jihadists in the Sahel target Christians
One of the underreported aspects of the violence in the Sahel is the ongoing targeting of Christians and their churches, which threatens to drive them out of the area for good. According to an annual report by the Christian charity organization, Open Doors, 27 Islamist groups repeatedly target Christians in the Sahel. Climate change played […]
Chadian military claims it killed 1000 terrorists in a multi-day operation
The Chadian military recently concluded Bohoma Anger, an eight-day operation around the heavily disputed islands of Lake Chad. The military inflicted a heavy toll on Boko Haram killing 1000 terrorists and destroying 50 motorized canoes, military officials claimed. Army spokesman, Colonel Azem Bermandoa, said in a statement to the media, that the operation cleared the […]
Terrorist attack devastates Chadian Army base, hundreds of casualties
Boko Haram has targeted a Chadian army base located on an island and inflicted the deadliest attack on Chad’s military forces yet. At 05:00 on Saturday, the terrorist group attacked the isolated Chadian base. The base is located across the Bohoma peninsula in Lac Province amid the large, marshy area bordering Lake Chad. The seven-hour […]
