Trial of the attacks: after a week of interrogations, windows on the minds of the accused
Tags : Belgium, Brussels attacks, terrorism, Al Qaïda, ISIS, Islamic State, djihad, Syria, Very dense, the week of hearing the accused has come to an…
Terrorism
Trial of the Brussels attacks: “broken heart”, “law of retaliation”…
Tags : Brussels attacks, Belgium, terrorism, ISIS, Osama Krayem, Salah Abdeslam, Bilal El Makhoukhi, Mohamed Abrini, For the first time, the main defendants of the…
Washington team March 2012 progress report
Tags : Morocco, USA, Lobbying, Western Sahara, Frente Polisario, Terrorism, Sahel, Introduction In the highly politicized atmosphere in Washington during this US presidential election year,…
Au Sahel, même rêver est interdit. Heureusement, nous ne manquons pas d’occasions de désobéir…
La manifestation de l’opposition, annoncée il y a deux semaines et prévue pour le samedi 20 mars, a été interdite par un arrêté quelques jours…
Le contre-terrorisme : L’État islamique en Afrique
Au cours des quatre dernières années, la plupart des violences terroristes islamiques se sont déplacées vers l’Afrique. À l’heure actuelle, les dix pays les plus…
Four Tunisian Soldiers Killed In Landmine Blast: Ministry
A landmine blast killed four Tunisian soldiers on Wednesday during a counter-terrorism operation in mountainous central Tunisia, the defence ministry said. « Four soldiers who were…
Mauritania: A Hunt for Rabbits
We were warned in Timbuktu . “Don’t go through the desert back to Mauritania , you must be crazy!” They told us. “If Al Qaeda…
Algeria seizes nearly $100,000 militants’ ransom cash
A 2013 file picture shows an Algerian soldier standing guard at the Tiguentourine gas complex, in In Amenas, about 1,600 kilometres southeast of the capital….
Tunisia extends five-year-old state of emergency by six months
The Tunisian presidency has announced a six-month extension of the country’s state of emergency, in place since a 2015 attack on a presidential guard bus…
Nice attack: Tunisia will accept deportees from France if judicial rights guaranteed
Tunisia will accept all Tunisian migrants deported from France following the fatal stabbings at a church in Nice as long as all judicial appeals have…
Tunisia's Security Arrests Man Claiming Responsibility For The Deadly Nice Attack
Tunisian security forces on Saturday arrested a man for claiming responsibility of a knife attack in the southern French city of Nice, according to a…
MOROCCO: EXTRADITED FROM DENMARK, SAID MANSOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TERRORISM
A Moroccan court on 19 October 2020 sentenced to death Said Mansour for his involvement in the May 2003 terrorist attacks in Casablanca. Living in…
Sahel: the Mauritanian exception, by Isselkou Ahmed Izidbih
The term « Sahel » means « shore » in the Arabic language, about the southern edge of the « sea of sand » that is the Sahara. It is a…