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Jul
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Four soldiers killed in Mali

Four soldiers killed in Mali

NEWS
FOUR soldiers were killed when their patrol was ambushed by suspected militants in central Mali yesterday, the army said in a statement The region is where Mali is battling Islamist militants linked to al Qaeda and the Islamic State. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. The army said in a statement that the patrol was ambushed near the town of Lere on Sunday morning. "The provisional toll is at four soldiers killed," it said. The attack comes as France, which has deployed over 5,000 counter-terrorism soldiers in Mali to help combat militants, said on Friday that it has…
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Jun
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Suicide bomber wounds French troops in central Mali

Suicide bomber wounds French troops in central Mali

NEWS
A suicide bomber in a car attacked a French reconnaissance mission in central Mali yesterday, wounding some of the soldiers and local residents, the French army said. The French military did not say how many were hurt, but the mayor of the town of Gossi, where the attack happened, said he had heard many people were wounded. "The detonation was so loud it blew out the windows of some houses," said the mayor, Moussa Ag Almouner. "We still hear shots, planes flying over the place." No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Islamist militant groups linked to al Qaeda…
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Jun
16
2021
By The African Mirror
Ten Nigerian captives freed by militants

Ten Nigerian captives freed by militants

NEWS
LANRE OLA TEN people who had been held captive by Islamist militants were freed this week in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, three security sources and two close associates of those released told Reuters. The people, including aid workers, had been taken by Boko Haram over the past year, the sources said. They were released at around noon (1100 GMT) on Monday and were taken to a hospital in Borno state capital Maiduguri. The sources said the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), a rival militant group to Boko Haram, had released the hostages after finding them in a Boko Haram…
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Jun
12
2021
By The African Mirror
INSIGHT-With military victory elusive, W.African nations quietly back talks with Islamists

INSIGHT-With military victory elusive, W.African nations quietly back talks with Islamists

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
THIAM NDIAGA and AARON ROSS TWO years after local emir Djibril Diallo fled his home in northern Burkina Faso following death threats from Islamist militants, he received an unexpected request: to return and take part in peace talks with the same people who wanted him dead. Adama Ouedraogo, deputy mayor of Diallo's hometown of Thiou, called him in January to help negotiate an end to years of attacks by jihadists against local militias and civilians that forced thousands of people to flee the area. "I told them that if everyone was sincere, I could return," said Diallo, a traditional chief…
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Jun
12
2021
By The African Mirror
France ends West African operation

France ends West African operation

NEWS
JOHN IRISH and TANGI SALAUN PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron has announced that France's operation battling Islamist militants in the Sahel region of West Africa would come to an end with troops now operating as part of broader international efforts in the region. France, the former colonial power, has hailed some success against Sahel militants in recent months but the situation is extremely fragile and Paris has grown frustrated with no apparent end in sight to its operations and political turmoil especially in Mali. "The time has come to begin a deep transformation of our military presence in the Sahel," Macron told…
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Jun
12
2021
By The African Mirror
Al Qaeda leader in Sahel killed

Al Qaeda leader in Sahel killed

NEWS
THE French army has killed an al Qaeda leader during an operation in the Sahel region who is believed to be responsible for the kidnapping and killing of two French journalists in 2013, Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly has revealed. Parly said in an address posted on Twitter that three Islamist militants were also killed during the operation in the West African region. "On June 5, the Barkhane force detected a planned attack on an UN compound in Aguelhok in northern Mali", the minister said. She said that a military operation was launched as a group of armed terrorists was…
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May
24
2021
By The African Mirror
French journalist kidnapped in Mali

French journalist kidnapped in Mali

NEWS
FRENCH Foreign Affairs minister Jean-Yves Le Drian confirmed yesterday that a French journalist who disappeared last month in Mali's northern city of Gao had probably been taken hostage by Islamist militants in West Africa's arid Sahel region. Olivier Dubois this month appeared in a video appealing to authorities to do everything they can to free him from the JNIM (al Qaeda North Africa) holding him. French authorities have previously only confirmed Dubois' disappearance. "Everything leads us to believe he's the hostage of a jihadist group", Le Drian told RTL radio.
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Apr
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Chad in turmoil

Chad in turmoil

NEWS
MADJIASRA NAKO and MAHAMAT RAMADANE THE son of Chad's slain leader Idriss Deby took over as president and armed forces commander on Wednesday as rebel forces threatened to march on the capital, deepening the turmoil in a country vital to international efforts to combat Islamist militants in Africa. The political opposition also denounced the military's takeover of control, calling the move a coup d'etat and rejecting its plan for a transition. Labour unions called for a workers' strike. Deby, 68, was killed on Monday on the frontline in a battle against fighters of the Libyan-based Front for Change and Concord…
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Apr
20
2021
By The African Mirror
Egypt targets suspected killers’ cell

Egypt targets suspected killers’ cell

NEWS
EGYPTIAN security forces have shot dead three suspected Islamist militants accused of targeting Coptic Christians and involvement in the execution-style killing of a 62-year-old man in North Sinai, the interior ministry said yesterday. The suspected militants died in an exchange of fire and were part of a cell that was plotting to attack Copts, their property and places of worship, as well as the security forces, the ministry said in a statement. It did not say when the clash took place. An Islamist insurgency spread in the north of the Sinai Peninsula after Egypt's military overthrew Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed…
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Mar
31
2021
By The African Mirror
‘French air strike killed 19 at Mali wedding party’

‘French air strike killed 19 at Mali wedding party’

NEWS
PAUL LORGERIE A French air strike in January killed 19 civilians and three armed men at a wedding in the remote desert of central Mali, United Nations investigators said on Tuesday, contradicting France's account that only Islamist militants were hit. The human rights division of the United Nations mission in Mali (MINUSMA) said it had visited the village of Bounti where the attack took place on January 3, analysed satellite images and interviewed more than 400 people, including at least 115 in face-to-face, individual sessions. "MINUSMA is able to confirm that a wedding celebration was held that brought together about…
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