Report says Islamic State in Mozambique is propped by South Africa as a conduit for terrorism finance
While Islamist violence in northern Mozambique dropped 71 per cent between 2022 and 2023, MEARI cautioned that the possibility of the group gaining further ground and recapturing lost ground as 2024 unfolds should not be ruled out.
New report details how Mozambique is now most overt manifestation of terrorism in southern Africa
The impact of Islamic State support from Somalia became increasingly apparent in 2020 and 2021. This permitted ISM to increase its operations and allowing the insurgency to reach the peak of engagement in political violence events in June 2020. Insurgents targeted urban centres, seized control of Mocímboa da Praia town in August 2020, for at least a year and twice threatened the LNG project at Palma.
Mali’s military government arrests workers of a Canadian mining firm over unpaid taxes
Authorities in Mali have arrested four senior employees of a Canadian mining company as the military regime in the West African nation continues to detain workers to pressure companies in its crucial mining sector to pay millions in additional taxes. Barrick Gold in a statement on Tuesday confirmed that four...
Analysts link rise of Lakurawa terrorists to absence of government in Nigeria’s northwest
The Nigerian security forces, under Operation Fansan Yamma and Operation Farautar Mujiya, launched air and ground assaults on camps belonging to the terror group after Lakurawa attacked residents of Mera in Kebbi State, killing 15 people, on 9 November 2024.
Namibia’s vice president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on course to become first female president
About 1.4 million people — approximately half the Namibian population — are registered to vote to decide the president and the makeup of Parliament. The country on the southwestern coast of Africa is a former German colony that came under South African control after World War I. SWAPO was at the forefront of the battle for independence.
Libyan militia says it detained 300 migrants in the desert to contain rising sea crossings
The oil-rich country plunged into turmoil after a NATO-backed uprising toppled longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Since then, the country has been divided between duelling governments in the east and west, each backed by militias and foreign powers. Human traffickers have for years benefited from the political chaos.
South African dissident writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach dies at 85 in Paris
South African writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach, a staunch opponent of the former white-minority government’s apartheid policy of racial oppression, has died in Paris, his family announced on Sunday. He was 85. Breytenbach was a celebrated wordsmith, a leading voice in literature in Afrikaans – an offshoot of Dutch that...
Sudan’s football team have been forced into a nomadic existence playing ‘home’ games in South Sudan
With approximately 19 million children unable to go to school or university, Noor fears for “a whole generation of young Sudanese who are losing out on their future”.
Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on the cusp of becoming Namibia’s first-ever female president
Political analyst Henning Melber, a professor at the University of Pretoria and the University of the Free State, believes SWAPO and Nandi-Ndaitwah must take the 2019 election results as a warning even though they appear favoured to win the elections.
Al Qaeda affiliate kills at least six Russian mercenaries in central Mali, group says
Russia has capitalised on deteriorating relations between the West and coup-affected Sahel nations in West Africa to send fighters and assert its influence. Wagner has been active in the Sahel, the vast expanse south of the Sahara Desert.
