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Breaking News: The UAE hired Colombian mercenaries to help a notorious Sudanese paramilitary group accused of genocide, UN investigators found. nyti.ms/4zt91Gd
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Replying to @MiddleEastEye
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Desafiando al invasor marroquí los saharauis salen en las calles del El Aaiún ocupado con banderas saharauis y proclamas de “fuera Marruecos” en rechazo a la ocupación marroquí.
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Amid rumors of an unprecedented Algerian base in Niger, there seems to be a crisis ongoing within AES, with Burkina Faso being clear outlier. For now only signs, but ever since Traoré apparently refused to help during the Niamey coup, welcomed Israeli diplomat,tensions are stark.
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Eastern Libya’s approval of a controversial maritime border deal with Turkey marks a shift in regional alliances as well as internal Libyan power dynamics. Read about it here: tinyurl.com/5ehffj5r
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De oorlog in Iran veroorzaakt een energiecrisis. Voor Europa ligt de oplossing in Algerije en Libië. ‘Olie en gas uit Noord-Afrika kunnen de import uit de Perzische Golf vervangen.’

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✍️ NEW OP-ED | The New Red Sea Wars

Conflicts in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa have become inseparable. The question now is whether the various powers can find a way to manage their different interests, writes @alanboswell in @ForeignAffairs.

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UAE’s failed attempt to put me on its payroll.
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"Allegations that the son of the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar oversaw a “terror cell” that launched drone attacks on fuel storage facilities and power stations in western Libya have upended plans for the Tripoli-based government of national unity (GNU) to continue cooperating with Haftar on a plan to unify the country."

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Only about 40 people attended a sold-out panel discussion with Greta Thunberg at the Zurich Film Festival about the documentary “My Home of Wind and Sand” which follows Western Saharan activist Najla Mohamed Lamin. Moroccan sabotage?

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"Eventually, Mansoor succumbed to a malicious email attachment, which sent all of his private data to a computer server registered to PO box 5151 in Abu Dhabi: the postal address of Sheikh Tahnoon’s personal office. He later found out that his baby monitor had also been hacked, turning it into a camera and microphone that captured every moment of his family life. He was arrested again in 2017, subjected to a secret trial, and convicted of insulting the “status and prestige of the UAE and its symbols, including its leaders”. Sentenced to 10 years in jail, he has remained in solitary confinement in al-Sadr, the maximum-security jail"
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Pourquoi le #JNIM évite les décapitations et les lapidations que pratique l'État islamique au Sahel

Une étude de l'IRSEM explique pourquoi le JNIM privilégie désormais médiation et sanctions correctives, là où l'EIS continue de miser sur l'exemplarité punitive.

Une analyse qui rejoint ce qu'i-Sahel documentait déjà sur leur rivalité sur le terrain.

🔎 Notre article 👇

#Sahel #JNIM #EIS #Mali

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RT @Alilmrabet: 1. Pegasus et espionnage au Maroc et à l'étranger.

Impressionnant.

Tout ce que l'on répète depuis des années avec les mo…
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Trekking in the desert like the Israelites. Waylaid by desert bandits. The Nigerian girl from Benue “brutally raped for 3 days” by traffickers.

The third and final installation of @fijnigeria’s migrant investigation.

UNDERCOVER: Europe Through the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea (III) fij.ng/article/underc…
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Saudi Arabia Is Winning This War robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/saudi-arabia…
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“Make sure you don’t sleep,” one trafficker belted out. “If you sleep, you fall off. And if you fall off, you die!”

@fijnigeria's latest undercover investigation.

UNDERCOVER: Europe Through the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea (I) fij.ng/article/underc…
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I spent 47 days as one of several thousand African migrants seeking to enter Europe through the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea.

Story on @fijnigeria tomorrow, Thursday and on Friday.
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