Cape Town — French troops ended their withdrawal from Mali in August 2022 after a nine-year mission that supported the government troops in their fight against armed groups. In an interview with Al Jazeera, Mali Prime Minister Choguel Maiga said he needed to clarify that his country did not abandon cooperation with France. “Let us […]
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Abuja — The Nigerian Army has instituted investigations into the unfortunate incident of a soldier who killed his colleagues and himself at Forward Operations Base, FOB, Rabbah, Sokoto State, last weekend. The incident occurred on Sunday evening at the FOB, where troops were deployed for internal security operations. Circumstances leading to the incident could not […]
Independent Norton Member of Parliament, Temba Mliswa has rapped the government’s continued prioritisation of the military ahead of education research and development programmes in successive national budget allocations. Speaking during a book launch at Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) last week, Mliswa said it was folly to give huge chunks of money to the army […]
Cape Town — President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Felix Tshisekedi has urged visiting French President Emmanuel Macron to pursue international sanctions against Rwanda, for its alleged military support of M23 rebels, according to a report by Al Jazeera. The Tuti-led M23 rebels conquered swathes of territory in the eastern DR Congo since it launched […]
French President Emmanuel Macron pledged 34 million euros of aid to Congo’s conflict-hit east on Saturday and said any party seeking to derail peace efforts there should face sanctions. Macron was speaking during an official visit to Democratic Republic of Congo, where perceptions of French support for neighbouring Rwanda have stoked anti-French feeling as eastern […]
Hargeisa — Somaliland said it will use all means to regain control of the strategic city of Las Anod, the regional capital of Sool after its troops lost power to SSC clan militia. The command of Somaliland military announced an all-out offensive to flush out SSC from the city, where local community fighters vowed to […]
Reacting to the former president’s claims, Dele Alake said Mr Obasanjo is not an uninterested party in the election. The Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the claim by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, alleging fraud in last Saturday’s presidential election in the country as an attempt to provoke a military […]
President Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday a “noticeable reduction” of France’s troop presence in Africa following a withdrawal from Mali and Burkina Faso after years fighting jihadists there. “The change will happen in the coming months with a noticeable reduction of our numbers and a greater presence in these bases of our African partners,” Macron […]
Says he gave “shoot and kill” orders at Waterside. Appeal hearings in Monrovia for Gibril Massaquoi, a Sierra Leonean man accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Liberia, is getting more dramatic as they near one month, with two additional prosecution witnesses corroborating the testimonies of other witnesses that he was called “Angel […]
LAS ANOD [SMN] – The Somaliland forces have completely withdrawn from Tukaraq town on Sunday morning without a battle, as confirmed by reliable sources. The breakaway regional troops are said to have moved to the side of the road that connects GojaAde and Tukaraq, and are en route to Adhi-Adeye area. There was no […]
The witnesses claimed Mr Massaquoi and other RUF soldiers came to Liberia to provide a backup for forces of then-President Charles Taylor. Two more ex-soldiers of the Liberian government have told a Finnish appeals court in Monrovia that Gibril Massaquoi, a former commander of Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF), was in Liberia during the […]
Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has said its troops operating in the North East, North Central, North West and South East have neutralized 69 terrorists, arrested 71, while another 252 surrendered in two weeks. Director of defence media operations Major-general Musa Danmadami who disclosed this during the biweekly update on Armed Forces of Nigeria operations between […]
The Ugandan army, the UPDF was among the participants in the just concluded largest military exercise in East Africa by the United States, African partner nations and multinational forces. The U.S. Africa Command’s largest East Africa military training exercise code named Justified Accord 23″ (JA23) that commenced in mid-February was closed on Thursday in Isiolo, […]
Maritime safety and security within the Indian Ocean are set to increase and will benefit Seychelles as two centres dealing with and coordinating maritime information exchange signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Tuesday. The MoU was signed by the director of the Seychelles-based Regional Coordination Operations Centre (RCOC), Sam Gonthier, and done virtually by […]
Cape Town — An attack on a Burkina Faso army unit in the north of the country on February 17, 2023 has risen to 51, reports VOA. The military unit was ambushed in the Sahel region’s Oudalan province, between the towns of Deou and Oursi. Reinforcements were sent to the area and an unspecified number […]
Cape Town — France and Burkina Faso have officially marked the end of French military operations in the West African nation, the Burkinabe armed forces said. A flag-lowering ceremony at the French special forces’ camp took place on February 18, 2023. This follows a request by the Burkinabe junta on January 26, 2023, for French […]
Nairobi — The growing threat of violent extremism in the Sub-Saharan African region should be nipped in the bud using a raft of economic, social and political tools in order to realize progress and stability in the continent, a United Nations Development Program (UNDP) report has said. Africa is the new epicenter of violent extremism, […]
The Somali military court announced on Saturday the execution of two government soldiers convicted of civilian shooting on 10th January 2023. The soldiers were Qasim Duale Abdi who killed Abukar Mohamed Sheikh Nurani (Abirimo) in Mogadishu’s Hamarweyne and Hassan Juulle Shakir who killed Ali Taliye Arif in Bal’ad. Abukar Mohamed Sheikh Nurani (Abirimo) who had […]