The European Union joins international efforts to contain the Houthis in Yemen. The Council launched the ASPIDES operation to restore and safeguard freedom of navigation in the Red Sea and the Gulf. ASPIDES will be part of…
Wagner group rebranded as Russia’s Africa Corps. It is set to expand across the Sahel states, the CAR, and Libya.
On Gabonese national TV, soldiers declared the cancellation of recent election results and the dissolution of “all the institutions of the republic.” This development occurred not long after the national election authority’s statement that President…
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations is in the throes of what Secretary-General António Guterres calls an “unprecedented” six-month exit from Mali on orders of the West African nation’s military junta, which has brought in…
Patriot, traitor, martyr … legacy of Prigozhin is still unwritten. In a 2018 documentary, Vladimir Putin answers instantly when asked if there is anything he cannot forgive. “Betrayal,” he says with no hesitation. Wagner mercenary…
The purported demise of Prigozhin has garnered significant media attention. Yet it’s good to realize there has been only hearsay and no actual footage that proved the man was alive after his car drove of…
High-stakes arm-wrestling over the future of Niger and the cloud of the Economic Community of West African States. The region is divided, but the African Union stands with ECOWAS on the coup d’ etat in…
Al Jazeera, The Ethiopian army and the Amhara militia were allies in the two-year civil war against the northern Tigray region. The conflict has quickly become Ethiopia’s most serious security crisis since a two-year civil…
Although we have seen no indication that Yevgeniy Prigozhin is still alive (we very much doubt it and think we’ll never find his remains), this is an interesting read about the possible future of the…
The People’s Armed Forces Maritime Militia (PAFMM), better known as China’s Little Blue Men are a naval militia that is involved in gray zone operations, or “low-intensity maritime rights protection struggles,” at a level designed to…
The Ethiopian prime minister says his landlocked country will have direct port access. Abiy Ahmed wants to increase economic growth. But how far is he prepared to go? And what could Ethiopia’s neighbors offer? Al…
The official Russian news agency, TASS, reported on the Wagner group’s activities in Africa. Units of the controversial private military company rescued 12 Chinese miners from militants.
