WagnerGroup is "going to be extracting natural resources out of Africa .oil, gas, gold, diamonds, strategic minerals.But what they're doing for the Kremlin though is. they're displacing western influences like France" "They're trying to block us out," says Gen. Townsend
Burkina Faso: Damiba launches an "order to mobilize former soldiers" the day after a deadly ambush against gendarmes
2 year agoBurkina Faso: At least 11 people were killed after unidentified gunmen attacked a gold mine in Burkina Faso's Seytenga commune on Thursday afternoon, the official AIB news agency reported on Friday
Mali: The UN is investigating allegations received by its human rights division that mercenaries from Russia, fighting alongside Malian soldiers, have committed abuses in the West African country
2 year ago"The military convoy blocked in Kaya is a serious accident for us. We were embarrassed. It's a thorn in the side, in the logistics deployment", General Michon, commander of @BARKHANE_OP, in a press conference at Ouagadougou, this Friday
Fourteen vigilantes who left Niger State to fight bandits in Kebbi have died in battle
Police arrest, parade 220 militants, other suspects in Kaduna
Mondoro attack against the FAMa which left 27 dead: the CNDH condemns this barbaric act
Mali Mondoro: 27 Malian soldiers killed and 70 militants neutralized in an attack
2 year agoBurkina: Incidents from 06 to 07/22: Loroum: 1-72 hour ultimatum from the radicals in the village of Rambo to clear the premises 2-Rocket fire on Namssiguia (1 civilian killed) 3-Explosive device against the army (2 dead) in Sollé Kossi: 4-Explosive device against the army (1 injured) in Barani
2 year agoTerrorism: At least 9 militants were killed on Monday when armed men attacked the base of N'Tahaka, Gao, killing 02 soldiers and slightly wounding 02 others, announces @FAMa_DIRPA. "The search continues", says the army"
Security personnel have killed over 200 suspected bandits in a major crackdown in Niger State
Four Boko Haram/ISWAP militants killed as troops repel attack in Borno
04 militants reported dead following an ISWAP attack on the Banki military camp Nigeria. No casualties reported on the side of the soldiers
Terrorist embargo in Mondoro: young people from the locality warn of a humanitarian crisis Mali
2 year agoAt least 18 civilians were killed on Sunday in Niger. According to the authorities, the "armed bandits" are from neighboring Mali
Mali announces the killing of 19 armed extremists in cooperation with European forces
Burkina Gomgobiro explosion: 63 dead (Revised balance sheet, Public Prosecutor's Office): 63 dead and around sixty injured on Monday in the "explosion followed by fire" at the Gomgobiro gold panning site, village of Gbomblora, 15km from Gaoua, (South -Where is)
The Malian army announces the killing of 8 soldiers and 60 militants in clashes in the north of the country
2 year agoNiger: Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum seeks to prevent Islamist insurgents from further destabilizing his country after the departure of European troops from neighboring Mali
2 year agoOn the withdrawal of France from Mali: it is a failure of whom? @JY_LeDrian: "We are not in failure in Mali. If by chance, there is a failure, it is to be sought on the side of the junta which has taken no initiative to strengthen action against terrorism"
U.S. officials say there are between 3,000-5,000 Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group in Africa and about 800-1,000 in Mali currently, a number they expect to grow after France announced it was withdrawing its troops from the West African country
2 year agoBurkina: Armed men prohibit traffic on the Bourzanga-Djibo axis. They threatened with death, Wednesday and Thursday, any driver who would now venture this axis. Carriers suspend trips to Djibo
A spokesman for the French Ministry of Defense: Mali's rulers preferred to pay money to Russian mercenaries
French pullout from Mali 'bound to impact' UN peacekeepers: UN
2 year agoFrance, it's European allies & Canada will withdraw troops from Mali due to "multiple obstructions" by the ruling military junta said France's President Emmanuel Macron. Some troops will now be hosted in Niger & some will provide support to countries around the Gulf of Guinea
This February 17, 2022, Emmanuel Macron declared France and its partners have taken the decision to withdraw their military forces from Mali. This withdrawal will result in the closure of the rights-of-way of Gossi de Ménaka and Gao
Fight against terrorism in the Sahel: Emmanuel Macron announces that European soldiers will be redeployed from Mali to Niger
Macron denies French mission in Mali ending in failure
France, its European partners and Canada announce a "coordinated withdrawal" of their armed forces in Mali mali france military withdrawal
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