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West African politics maniac. Bissau-Conakry-Dakar-Banjul & all things Boko Haram. @LaboratoireLAM @pol_africaine @AfriqueXXI.
Paris, France
Joined December 2011
Axe Mora-Kousseri de plus en plus dangereux à cause des enlèvement. Les enlèvements et la contrebande de bétail sont devenus les principales sources de "revenu" pour les factions de Boko Haram. Le mauvais état de cette route facilite de telles exactions. #Vigilance @
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A Beech 1900D aircraft (reg ZS-ZBJ) allegedly linked to pro-Traoré Burkinabe businessman Bonkoungou landed a short while ago in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, from Lomé, Togo, its history reveals it flew from Niamtougou, northern Togo, to Lomé on the morning of the coup in Benin.
Yesterday, a VIP private jet linked to Togolese president Faure Gnassingbé left Lomé for Niamey, where it stayed for four hours, during which a meeting between Nigerien junta leader Tiani and the Togolese head of state took place, the jet then returned to Lomé, Togo.
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Analysis: The Islamic State’s war on Christians in Congo
longwarjournal.org
The Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP), locally known as the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), has killed almost 1,000 civilians this year, with the vast majority of its victims being...
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That piece by my younger brother @jh_barnett (and colleague) on jihadi expansion in Nigeria is bound to be another landmark in the field. Tons of actual fieldwork inside.
Happy to share this detailed study on jihadist expansion and difussion in Nigeria, which will be featured in the January vol. of CTC Sentinel A lot of fieldwork across Nigeria went into trying to understand this complex phenomenon (Thread to follow) https://t.co/O6YPYDVWDI
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La semaine dernière, j'ai eu la chance de croiser le créateur d'Au Service de la France et le scénariste des OSS et de lui présenter mes respects. Rien que pour cette scène, que j'ai vécue à plusieurs reprises. Merci, cher Maître.
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Nicolas Sarkozy reçoit le “prix de littérature” de la FIFA
legorafi.fr
La Fédération Internationale de Football a remis à l’ex-président ce tout nouveau prix littéraire pour son livre “Le Journal d’un Prisonnier”.
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South Sudan, but oddly also Central African Republic & Togo abstain on this statement in support of UNRWA.
The @UN General Assembly has given a strong endorsement to the ruling by the International Court of Justice that claims about @UNRWA being infiltrated by Hamas are not substantiated, nor are allegations that UNRWA is not a neutral organisation. This vote is an important sign of
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Afrikajom Center ausculte la démocratie sénégalaise : «Le Sénégal : un modèle démocratique à la croisée des chemins» https://t.co/66U4aG2qAH
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So this mawlid thing could be one more clue that the Lakurawa are (in part or in totality) loyal to JNIM.
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So given this history, and if indeed some or all Lakurawa are JNIM, the mawlid thing would make total sense in the new context they operate in, in the NW of Nigeria... More than ever, it's important to think of those things at a West African level...
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The gory huddud punishments and destruction of the tombs of the Sufi saints in Mali when they took over Timbuktu and other sites in the early 2010s were very controversial within the organisation...
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Well. Actually, JNIM has a record of moderation in the implementation of religious obligations. Especially in contexts where they do not exert full sovereignty, they are advised to tolerate local Islamic practices to an extent.
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But then, remember that, according to Malick and others (poke @OginniSimon, @piusadeleye1), Lakurawa are followers of #AlQaeda #JNIM (actually, I collected evidence that some Lakurawa at least are indeed following an AQ aqida... https://t.co/DoNb2tWHV3)
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Some people noted that this was weird that jihadists would celebrate the birthday of the Prophet, since in the Salafi interpretations that they favour, this is "associationism" - a terrible sin, associating someone else with God in one's devotion.
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"A lasting solution to the country’s conflicts will involve taking on the entrenched political and business interests which benefit from them, such as the elites who collude with bandits to smuggle gold from illegal mines in the north-west"
economist.com
Donald Trump’s ire has drawn attention to appalling security failures
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30 Ministers and Knesset members say “Gaza is part of Israel” and that true victory is only with the seizing of territory, call on defense minister to allow for a mass event inside destroyed Gaza. The official government push for Israeli annexation of (part of) Gaza has begun.
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Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister Yusuf Tuggar has confirmed that, three days after the C-130’s emergency landing in Burkina Faso, both the eleven Nigerian officers and the aircraft remain in the country. He stated that negotiations with the Traoré regime are ongoing to secure
Eleven Nigerian military personnel are currently being held by the Burkinabe military regime in Bobo-Dioulasso, southwest Burkina Faso, after their aircraft conducted an emergency landing while "violating AES airspace".
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Possible foreign fighter spotted among ISWAP militants during the attack against the Nigerian army position in Mairari, Borno State two days ago.
ISWAP released a video from the attack against the Nigerian army position in Mairari, Borno State, yesterday.
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ISWAP released an image of the execution of two of the Nigerian army spies they killed recently, the informants are wearing orange jumpsuits, a full video will likely be released by the group in the future
ISWAP executed another two spies loyal to the Nigerian army yesterday, one of them was captured in his house in Dekwa, Yobe, and another near Gubio, Borno state, the terrorists also took his car. ISWAP carried out nine executions in recent days, very likely in preparation for the
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