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Deserting Refugees in the Sahara

Deserting Refugees in the Sahara
05/13/2012 | Debates and Analysis
As dusk settles over the isolated Saharan town Kufra, young guards order a few hundred migrants lined up at a detention centre to chant "Libya free, Chadians out", before they kneel down for evening prayers. Most of the prisoners in the small, squalid compound called the Freedom Detention Centre -...

Armaments in North Africa: the arms race and Algerian leadership

Armaments in North Africa: the arms race and Algerian leadership
05/05/2012 | Maghreb
The arms trade is flourishing in North Africa, Jeune Afrique (JA) writes. In 2011 it says, Algeria has even become the biggest spending country in Africa in terms of weapons, with a whopping 6.5 billion euros military budget. A sum that would almost pass the 2.4 billion euros Moroccan defence...

Situation in Northern Mali cause for concern in Niger.

Situation in Northern Mali cause for concern in Niger.
05/04/2012 | Sahel
The Tuareg revolt in Northern Mali with the MNLA and Ansar Dine together with elements of AQIM and Mujwa is causing concern in Niger. The capital Niamey is only 450 km from Gao in Northern Mali and Niger fears any spill over of violence into its territory. In an article by Nathalie Prevost of...

Peace Lost in the Libyan Desert

Peace Lost in the Libyan Desert
04/28/2012 | Debates and Analysis
The recent outbreak of violence between the largely segregated Zwai and Tabu tribes in Libya’s remote, Saharan town of Kufra shattered the uneasy calm that held since last February’s clashes, resulting in more than 100 deaths. The clashes illustrate the challenges in building a new state. In the...

Libya’s federalists cling to autonomy

Libya’s federalists cling to autonomy
04/18/2012 | In the Media
Hundreds of federalism backers who massed in east Libya on Tuesday insisted on the region’s autonomy and challenged the framework for electing a constituent assembly. Participants issued a statement stressing their “commitment to the autonomy of Cyrenaica stretching from the border with Egypt (in...

Militia and tribal clashes continue in Libya

Militia and tribal clashes continue in Libya
04/03/2012 | Africa
A Libyan police brigade moved to quell clashes that broke out between two rival towns on Monday, brokering a cease-fire and securing the release of hostages, a local tribal chief said,AP reported. just days before the Libyan Prime Minister flew to Sabha where a serious tribal conflict had broken...

Ten dead in tribal clashes in Libya

Ten dead in tribal clashes in Libya
03/27/2012 | Africa
More than 10 people were killed in clashes on Monday in Libya between Toubou tribesmen and residents of the southern city of Sabha, local officials said to AFP. More than 10 people were killed today in violent clashes between the Toubou and residents of Sabha, Abdelrahman Seif al-Nasr, security...

FAO: Executive Brief: The Sahel Crisis 2012

FAO: Executive Brief: The Sahel Crisis 2012
03/16/2012 | Sahel
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) highlights the crisis in the Sahel in 2012 in Burkino Faso,Chad, Gambia,Mali,Mauritania,Niger and Senegal and seeks to raise $70,000 to cover the food and nutrition crisis. In an Executive Brief the FAO  outlines a new food and nutrition crisis is...

The African challenge: how to end hunger?

The African challenge: how to end hunger?
03/12/2012 | Africa
Erratic rainfall, crop failures, pressure on prices, 925 million worldwide people are undernourished, 300 million in Africa. A situation which is even more unacceptable that the continent has the potential to rise to the challenge writes Jeune Afrique (JA) in its current issue. In an Al Jazeera...

Regional Conference on border security Tripoli

Regional Conference on border security Tripoli
03/12/2012 | Maghreb
A ministerial regional conference on border security opened on Sunday in Tripoli with the participation of a Moroccan delegation led by Interior Minister Mohand Laenser. He is accompanied by Minister Delegate to the Head of Government Head of Government in Charge of National Defense Administration,...

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