ISWAP stormed Geidam in a convoy of approximately 15 trucks on Thursday at 5:30pm and left the town today, Friday at about 3pm. They stopped in Goggo petrol station and refuelled their vehicles, including the ones seized without paying for the fuel. They moved towards Damasak.
Zamfara: Soldiers kill many suspected militants, rescue kidnapped victims
2 year agoCherif Sy is appointed Minister of Defense of Burkina Faso
Niger: DeDiffa Region On Wednesday, January 23, 2019, armed individuals abducted a 60-year-old man in the village of N'Guarwa, some 3 km south of Garin Dogo in Gueskerou.
2 year agoWorking trip to Maghreb: Rossiya Special Flight Squadron Ilyushin Il96-300 is flying from Moscow Vnukovo to Algiers Houari Boumediene with Russian Foreign Minister aboard. Sergey Lavrov will visit Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia to discuss problems existing in Sahara-Sahel.
2 year agoAlgeria- AQIM release the speech by Abu Ubayda Yousuf al-Annabi, head of "Council of Dignitaries"
French military aircraft carried out airstrikes January 10 in Mali, killing an estimated 15 militants
The Libyan army announced the killing of an al-Qaeda leader in an operation in the southern region of Sabha
2 year agoA Tunisian C130j Super Hercules and a unit of 75 soldiers and officers from the Tunisian Air Force left today to Mali in a peacekeeping mission. a regiment of special forces and a comapny of Military Police are expected to be deployed soon as well.
2 year ago[email protected] Acting on intelligence gathered, FrAF Mirage 2000s and an Atlantic 2 supported by a MQ-9 Reaper, conducted an airstrike on January 10 in which about 15 militants were 'neutralized' in Dialoubé region Mali. Barkhane
Kirk Woodman, a Canadian man abducted in Burkina Faso has been found dead.
Body of a 'white man' marked with bullet wounds found in Burkina Faso's jihadist-hit north, a security source tells @AFP
Burkina Faso: Canadian National identified as Kirk Woodman kidnapped following attack on the mining site of Tiabongou, Yagha Province, on the borders with Niger last night by suspected JNIM or ISGS militants. Sahel
2 year agoBurkinaFaso: Aftermath of last night's attack against the border police station in Yendéré, Comoé Province
2 year agoItalian PM Conte in Niger. Today he'll have a meeting with President Mahamadou Issoufou and PM Brigi Rafini. On the table bilateral relations, economic ties, CT and immigration. Later he will also visit Italian troops and the UN contingent.
Libyan army spokesman: Army operations in the south aimed to address organized crime gangs
Libyan army spokesman: Army begins liberation of south-west areas
Libyan army spokesman: The aim of the operations of the Libyan army in the south to protect citizens from terrorism
2 year agoBurkina Faso: Unknown gunmen attacked the border police station last night in Yendéré, Comoé Province, Cascades Region, on the border with IvoryCoast (some local sources describe the attackers as jihadists), a civilian was wounded, and a vehicle and a motorbike set ablaze
Burkina Explosion reported in Ouagadougou's 9th arrondissement. The explosion reportedly destroyed several buildings, including homes for expatriates. Unconfirmed reports of unspecified casualties. No confirmation on the cause of the explosion atm.
Burkina: 12 dead in Gasseliki (Ministry of Security)
2 year agoMali: The first pic of Katiba Serma (JNIM) commander Farouk arrested amidst joint Barkhane/FAMa operation in the Sèrma area, south of Boni (Douentza), Mopti Region
2 year agoISIS - ISWA used 100 fighters to storm Nigerian army barracks in Baga, killing up and wounding up to 20 troops, seizing 3 light tanks, 4 artillery pieces, 2 MRLS, and loads of weapons and ammo.
More than 30,000 flee Boko Haram violence in northeast Nigeria: UN
Boko Haram fighters currently burning down houses in Ajilari, at the outskirts of Maiduguri, not far from Gomari. Burning of houses or a whole community is a signature attack of Shekau's faction. Important to note that Ajilari is in Maiduguri.
2 year agoMali: anti-terrorist operation against Boni, in the circle of Douentza
2 year agoNiger: Unknown gunmen attacked two truck drivers near Makalondi (Torodi), Tillabery Region, stripped them of their belongings (cash and cell phones), whipped them for passing through the "assailants' area", and torched their trucks (photos shows one from different angles)
Burkina Faso: Attack against the gendarmerie in Dan, Houet Province, on the axis Bobo-Dioulasso - Diébougou, no further details
Death toll from Monday's militant attack on central Burkina Faso village rises to 46 civilians, up from previous toll of six civilians - government spokesman
2 year agoFrench Mirage jets, Tiger helicopters and a Reaper drone carried out a series of airstrikes Dec. 27 targeting militants near the town of Tongo Tongo, Niger, the site of the Oct. 2017 ambush that killed 4 US soldiers. The joint French-Nigerien operation killed 15 "militants"
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