Niger is essential to stem the migratory flows towards Europe and for this reason every political, diplomatic but also military effort, through assistance and training, is crucial in order not to lose the last outpost, of Western circulation, in the middle of the Sahel by Massimiliano D'Elia Russia, despite the military campaign in Ukraine, does not [...]
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The government of Mali has announced that forty-nine civilians and fifteen soldiers have been killed following two "terrorist" attacks claimed by an al Qaeda-affiliated group which targeted a passenger ship and an army base in the north of Evils. The two separate attacks targeted "the [...]
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The coup plotting military junta, after having made President Mohamed Bazoum resign, does not want to listen to the appeals of the international community for a restoration of democracy and continues its rise to power. Yesterday's news that the military arrested 180 members of the governing party including two key executive figures. How much […]
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(by Francesco Matera) International analysts argue that Putin's strategy, on a global level, is to acquire extended spheres of influence in various parts of the world, through the establishment of "puppet" governments prone to the will of the Kremlin. After applying this new doctrine to several African countries, it is now the turn of Ukraine, where the modern czar of [...]
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France and its European partners operating in Mali have announced the coordinated withdrawal from the country, where they are present with Operation Barkhane and the European special forces Takuba. "The political, operational and legal conditions are no longer satisfied" and the countries, according to a joint statement, have decided "coordinated withdrawal" from the country [...]
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(Di Marinella Pacifico, member of the Senate Foreign Commission ”) Focusing exclusively on the military crisis in Ukraine is an exercise which, if not read with the right lens, risks stalemate in the heart of Europe. In the rest of the globe equally important games are being played, such as to determine the geopolitical assets for the spheres of [...]
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"France cannot maintain a military presence in Mali at all costs". This was said by the French Defense Minister, Florence Parly, during a radio interview. "What we want is to be able to continue the fight against terrorism because this is not the end of the fight, terrorism is also conquering the border states of Mali", [...]
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The Malian government last Friday flatly denied the baseless accusations of an alleged deployment of paramilitary elements of a private Russian company, Wagner. The government of Mali asking for evidence on the heavy accusations wanted to specify that some "Russian instructors" were in Mali as part of the strengthening of the operational capacity of the forces [...]
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On 17 December, on the occasion of the celebrations of the 63rd anniversary of the birth of the Federal Republic of Niger, President Mohamed Bazoum gave a long speech to the nation, highlighting the economic efforts to fight the pandemic and the scourge of terrorism. For the first time, Italy was counted among the contributing countries [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) The quagmire of the Sahel, an area of the world where regular armies have failed and where terrorist militias have a greater hold on local people, a bit like what happened in Afghanistan after 20 years of war. Italy is present with a military contingent operating in the deadly "area of the three borders" [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Macron last week launched an appeal to the US and other Western countries to form a coalition of special forces to replace the French operation Barkhane, which cost several billion and 55 casualties among French soldiers. Paris has decided to withdraw from the Sahel thus marking the failure of a presence [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Western intelligence agencies are certain that the new global crises will come from Africa where terrorist violence is renewing with the birth of many "caliphates" while the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and other militias exploit the withdrawal of foreign troops to reorganize. After years of attrition in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, [...]
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“The political and military lessons identified for Afghanistan will serve for the new scenarios of operations in Africa. It is necessary to resort to history and its teachings, such as those inherited from the Roman Empire, which obtained security from threats from the south by strengthening the countries of North Africa “. Thus, on Formiche.net, General Pasquale PREZIOSA, former head of state [...]
read moreTwo days ago at the Farnesina a meeting was held between Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio and his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian. There are many topics covered by Libya to the Covid emergency in Europe up to the Iranian nuclear agreement. The two foreign ministers of France and Italy met for 3 hours, a meeting that was [...]
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A minute of silence in the French Parliament to remember the 13 French soldiers who died in the clash between two helicopters in Mali, the news was reported by Euronews. The military was engaged in an anti-jihadist operation, as announced by the Elysée, specifying that the two aircraft were flying at low altitude. Now, however, an investigation will clarify [...]
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During his visit to Chad on 22 and 23 December last, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, confirmed France's commitment to the Sahel with operation Barkhane and support for the G5 Sahel, the joint military device between Burkina Faso , Mali, Niger, Chad and Mauritania. According to reports from the Nova agency to N'Djamena [...]
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The Islamic State of the Sahel ", the sub-Saharan African region, announced that it" will join forces "to fight against the troops of the countries that form the union called G5-Sahel (Mali, Niger - where the sending of an Italian contingent of up to 470 soldiers - Mauritania, Chad and Burkina Faso) and western ones (France, Germany and [...]
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