Interview on developments in the Sahel The director of the Sahara and Africa Center for Strategic Studies Dr. Abdel Fattah Al Fatihi has talked about the Sahel Confederation’s projects, the accusations of supporting terrorism in Mali and the Sahel countries against Ukraine, Türkiye’s role in the Sahel region, the relations between Senegal and the Sahel states in the near future and ECOWAS’s ...
By Hend Selim Dr. Ahmad Mezab, the Expert in military and security issues and crisis management, Consultant at Africa Geopolitics Center for Studies and former President of the Algerian-African Peace Committee has talked about the colonial powers’ interests in Africa, anti-France and ani-America waves in Africa, the future of ECOWAS and recent coups in West African countries. How do you ...
The forces of former Tuareg separatists, who have not been active in Niger for a long time, could be used by the French in a possible intervention, which remains a possibility. The former rebel leader Rhissa Ag Boula, a prominent activist in the Tuareg uprisings in 1990 and 2007, launched a movement last year opposing the military government that came ...
By Kıvanç Özdal After Burkina Faso and Mali, a government that defies imperialist countries, primarily France, has come to power in Niger. We made an interview about these developments with Kemi Seba, one of the leaders of the Pan-Africanist movement. A politician born in France and residing in Benin, Seba advocates collaboration with Eurasia against Western imperialism. The Urgences Panafricanistes, ...
In Niger, the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP) has terminated its military agreements with France. French channels have been prohibited in the country. People are organizing demonstrations against the US and France. Concurrently, preparations for military intervention are being made by countries in the south of Niger. As these events unfold, Africa-Russia relations are rapidly developing. The people of Niger hold ...
By Kivanc Ozdal General Abdurahman Ciyani, Chairman of the National Council for the Protection of the Homeland and Commander of the Presidential Guard Regiment in Niger, has announced that the President of the country, Muhammed Bazum was overthrown and the Constitution suspended due to the socio-economic crisis in the country. Following the events, the people hung the flags of Niger ...
Anti-French protests are sweeping many countries in Africa. Who is challenging Paris’s policies on the continent and why? Stop the convoy In November 2021, the French military command decided to move military reinforcements to Gao, Mali. In that country, France is conducting the military operation “Barkhan,” ostensibly aimed at terrorists operating in the region. However, the attempt to move 60 ...
Trump and coronavirus On December 27 Donald Trump signed a proposed Covid-19 relief and spending bill. “I am signing this bill to restore unemployment benefits, stop evictions, provide rental assistance, add money for PPP, return our airline workers back to work, add substantially more money for vaccine distribution, and much more,” the US president declared. However, he refused to approve ...
The Berbers are the indigenous people of North and West Africa, the ethnic substrate on which Arabization was later superimposed. Despite the fact that Arabs make up the majority, a significant part of the population from Libya to Mauritania has Berber roots. The size of the Berber (Amazigh) population is estimated to be between 30 and 50 million people, making ...
The Sahel region, which includes Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Algeria, remains host to vast criminal networks, drug trafficking and terrorist groups. Developments in Mali have hit the headlines over the past week ags terrorists attacked UN peacekeeping forces in Tessalit. As a result of the attack, at least 20 people, including 18 representatives of the organization, died from rocket ...