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How IS-Affiliated IS Sahel Expands Presence in Sokoto and Kebbi, Enforcing Strict Control and Smuggling Operations By: Zagazola Makama The Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), also known as IS Sahel, has reportedly intensified its influence...
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- Author: Zagazola Makama
- Category: Breaking News
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Rivalry Between Boko Haram and ISWAP Claims Top ISWAP Commander, Mallam Abdulrahman
The group's influence has grown with increased tax collection, control over trade, and a steady supply chain from across the Sahel and Sahara. Recently, a surge in arms deliveries via camel convoys from Libya has strengthened JAS camps in the northern...
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- Author: Zagazola Makama
- Category: Breaking News
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Graffiti in Niamey Reflects Growing Discontent Over Russian Mercenary Presence
in Niamey is not an isolated incident. Similar sentiments could soon emerge in other capitals of the Confederation of Sahel States (CES), where military regimes have attempted to consolidate power through populist rhetoric and anti-Western propaganda....
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- Author: Zagazola Makama
- Category: Breaking News
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Review of the Week: Political and Geopolitical Developments in the Sahel
Review of the Week: Political and Geopolitical Developments in the Sahel 1.JNIM Threatens Civilians and Authorities in Bamako** In a recently released 12-minute video, Abou Houzeifa al-Bambari, spokesperson for *Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin*...
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- Author: Zagazola Makama
- Category: Breaking News
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JNIM Launches Coordinated Attacks in Bamako and Niger, Targeting Key Military Sites
The dual attacks highlight the increasing capability and reach of JNIM, as well as the escalating security crisis in the Sahel region. The group's ability to strike key military installations in Mali's capital underscores vulnerabilities in intelligence...
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- Author: Zagazola Makama
- Category: Breaking News
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Jihadist Group JNIM Claims Control of Burkina Faso Army Post
targets. The situation in Burkina Faso remains volatile, with concerns growing about the spread of jihadist influence in the Sahel region. International partners and regional forces are working to support the Burkinabe government in its fight against...
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- Author: Zagazola Makama
- Category: Breaking News
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Armed terrorists link to Alqaeda killed 21 Nigerien soldiers, injured 9 in Tillaberi
Mali, an area frequently targeted by extremist groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State. The ongoing conflict in the Sahel region has resulted in thousands of deaths and the displacement of over 2 million people This attack comes at a time of...
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- Author: Zagazola Makama
- Category: Breaking News
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Sambisa Forest: The quest for peace, socio-economic stability in Lake Chad basin
commitment is imperative to address one of the worst global environmental disasters triggered by prolonged conflict in the Sahel region. Zagazola Makama, is a Counter Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst in the Lake Chad Region.
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- Author: Zagazola Makama
- Category: Breaking News
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How ISWAP, NJIM, are getting fuel through Kebbi- Niger - Benin and Burkina Faso
Terrorists Marchants secretly transport large quantities of Fuel, ammunition, and other logistics to terrorist groups in the Sahel and West African region through these routes. Sometimes, they passed through Benin Republic to get to Kompienga, one of...
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- Author: Zagazola Makama
- Category: Breaking News
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W/Africa under clear, present danger of terrorism – ECOWAS
Peace, and Security, said this at a news conference in Abuja on Friday. “Initially confined to certain countries in the Sahel (Mali and Niger) and the Lake Chad Basin (Nigeria), terrorist attacks have multiplied and spread to other countries (Burkina...
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- Author: Zagazola Makama
- Category: Breaking News
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Borno records 39,000 cases of gender-based violence in 13 years
ago where we met their representatives. ”They invited us to OSLO. It has to do with the deradicalisation process within the Sahel and West Africa,” she said. According to her, the Borno model of deradicalisation of insurgents has become a global...
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- Author: Zagazola Makama
- Category: Breaking News
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Scores of terrorists killed as ISWAP/Boko Haram clash in NE
both sides. The in-fighting between the two terrorist rival groups has worsened a fresh flow of arms and combatants from the Sahel ISIS to join ISWAP in the Chad Basin to restrengthen control of its enclaves from Boko Haram.
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- Author: Zagazola Makama
- Category: Breaking News
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Insurgency: Defence Minister, Service Chiefs visit Maiduguri
with Niger, Cameroon and Chad Republics. “We have to ensure that we don’t have safe haven for ISWAP in the northeast as the Sahel is now a major problem,
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- Author: Zagazola Makama
- Category: Breaking News
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French Government speaks on renewed partnerships between France and African countries
to fully engage with the representatives of the nation. The questions that have been born of the successive crises in the Sahel are equally legitimate. I will come back later to our action concerning that region over the last decade, but I would first...
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- Author: Zagazola Makama
- Category: Breaking News
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Nigerian Military and the Repeated Pledge of Safeguarding Democracy
for 44.4%. “Since 2010, there have been over 40 coups and attempted coups in Africa; some 20 occurred in West Africa and the Sahel (including Chad). Since 2019 there have been 9 (seven successful and two failed). “Between 1958 and 2008, most coups in...
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- Author: Zagazola Makama
- Category: Breaking News
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How French forces helped Nigerien armed forces in combating terrorism
of AQIM and Ansar Eddine. "On 21 February 2019, the leader of one of the main armed terrorist groups operating in the Sahel, Yahia Abou el Hammam, number two in the RVIM (Rally for the Victory of Islam and Muslims) was neutralized ; in October 2019,...
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- Author: Zagazola Makama
- Category: Breaking News
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until 1960. Until last Wednesday’s coup, Niger had been seen as the West’s reliable partner battling jihadists in Africa’s Sahel region.
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- Author: Zagazola Makama
- Category: Breaking News
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SECURITY CONSULTANT ALIYU GEBI TASK NEW ECOWAS CHAIRMAN
a clear policy of engagement from Security to the Economy and the general political stability of the Region. An unstable Sahel makes for an insecure Nigeria. A secure Nigeria means a prosperous Sahel” “Now should also be the time to start moving from an...
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- Author: Zagazola Makama
- Category: Breaking News
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UN highlights support for Africa’s fight against terrorism
more than five years. The secretary-general expressed deep concern over the gains which terrorist groups were making in the Sahel and other parts of Africa. “Despair, poverty, hunger, lack of basic services, unemployment, and unconstitutional changes in...
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- Author: Zagazola Makama
- Category: Breaking News
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Buhari calls for strengthening early warning systems to limit conflicts in Africa
the event. In Addis Ababa on Friday, President Buhari participated at the second Heads of State and Government Summit of the Sahel Region Climate Commission (SRCC). At the SRCC High-Level meeting, Buhari declared Nigeria’s readiness to host the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Zagazola Makama
- Category: Breaking News