Security

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has urged Ugandans to be vigilant in the wake of terrorism threats, asking that all visitors be checked before entering places of worship and recreational facilities. In a televised address to the nation on Thursday evening, President Museveni asked Ugandans not to allow any “strange” people …

A Malian army camp was targeted by a suicide attack in Gao on Friday, the day after a double attack blamed on jihadists which killed at least 64 civilians and soldiers in the north, where tension is growing day by day. The army spoke in a brief message on social …

The United Kingdom will include the Russian paramilitary group Wagner on its list of terrorist organizations, the Daily Mail said Tuesday, citing Interior Minister Suella Braverman. “Wagner is a violent and destructive organization which acted as a military instrument abroad for Vladimir Putin’s Russia,” the minister declared, the British daily …

East African heads of state on Tuesday unanimously agreed to extend the deployment of the regional military force in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The decision happens a week after DR Congo military officials killed 43 and arrested 168 protestors who were demanding the withdrawal of East African troops and …

The lawyers of Sylvia Bongo, Franco-Gabonese wife of deposed Gabonese president Ali Bongo, filed a complaint in France on Friday for arbitrary detention, Me François Zimeray and Jessica Finelle announced to AFP. Since the military seized power in Gabon last Wednesday, deposed President Ali Bongo and his wife Sylvia Bongo …

European Union foreign ministers ruled out a military solution as they met to discuss the political situation in Niger. As tensions between the putschists in Niger and Ecowas escalate, the European Union reiterates its support for the decisions taken by the sub-regional organization. For the head of European diplomacy, Josep …

At least 48 civilians and a policeman died Wednesday in Goma in a military operation intended to prevent a demonstration against the UN in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to an internal document of the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) consulted on Thursday. According to this document authenticated by military …

Russia, Bamako’s ally, vetoed on Wednesday a UN Security Council resolution extending sanctions against Malians threatening peace in the country, which the Malian junta was demanding be lifted. The resolution which planned to extend for one year the sanctions regime put in place in 2017 against individuals endangering the 2015 …

Gabon’s putschists have appointed the head of the Presidential Guard, General Oligui Ngema Brice, to lead the country after the overthrow of President Ali Bongo. “General Oligui Nguema Brice has been unanimously appointed as president of the Commission for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions (CTRI),” Colonel Ulrich Manfounbi, spokesman …

Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba, whose re-election after 14 years in power had just been announced, has been “retired”, said Wednesday the head of the Republican Guard, General Brice Oligui Nguema. Ali Bongo, currently under house arrest, “is retired, he enjoys all his rights. He is a normal Gabonese, like …