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MEDIA MONITORING
« INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENSE »
From April 19th to 26th, 2021
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AFRICA
NIGER – 04/19/2021 : CHAD – 04/19/2021 : US
Nineteen Civilians Killed in embassy to withdraw staff
New West Niger Attack : An as Chad rebels advance :
unknown number of The United States has
unidentified assailants initially attacked ordered its non-essential staff in Chad to
people attending a funeral at a cemetery, leave the African country as rebel fighters
before going on to the village where they "shot approached the capital on Sunday after early
at everyone they saw". election results showed President Idriss Deby
(The Defense Post-Article Link) on course to extend his three-decade rule.
(Defence Web-Article Link)
SOUTH AFRICA –
04/19/2021 : New ETHIOPIA – 04/19/2021 :
camouflage combat dress, Two killed in blast in
boots and caps for SA Ethiopian capital blamed
soldiers : Among reasons on hand grenade : Two
for the landward component of the SA people died and a third was critically injured in
National Defence Force (SANDF) embarking an explosion in Ethiopia’s capital on Sunday,
on a replacement exercise for among others, Addis Ababa’s police said.
its boots and camouflage uniforms, are them (Defence Web-Article Link)
being compromised, old-fashioned and
uncomfortable. (Defence Web-Article Link) TUNISIA – 04/19/2021 : At
least 40 migrants drown in
CHAD – 04/19/2021 : shipwreck off Tunisia : At
Chadian military 'halts' least 40 migrants drowned in
rebel advance on a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross
Ndjamena : Chadian the Mediterranean to Italy, United Nations and
soldiers have halted a rebel advance in the Tunisian officials said on Friday.
country's north, according to a military (Defence Web-Article Link)
spokesman, after American and British
embassies urged personnel to leave ahead of SOUTH AFRICA –
a possible assault on the capital. 04/19/2021 : Five poachers
(Africa News-Article Link) caught and one fatally
trampled by elephants in
MALI – 04/19/2021 : Dozens Kruger National Park : The
Killed in Central Mali Kruger National Park (KNP) conducted anti-
Jihadist-Hunter Clashes : poaching operations that led to the arrest of
The fighting between central five suspected poachers in the Pretoriuskop
Mali's main towns of Mopti and Djenne left section of the park over the weekend.
about 20 dead on both sides. (The Defense (Defence Web-Article Link)
Post-Article Link)
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SOMALIA – 04/19/2021 : SOUTH AFRICA –
Somali government troops 04/20/2021 : Human
face off with forces loyal to trafficking trial to get
sacked police boss : underway : The formal trial
Gunshots rang out late on Friday in Somalia’s of seven Chinese nationals
capital Mogadishu, witnesses said, when arrested on alleged human trafficking and
government troops approached the home of violation of South Africa’s labour laws is
the city’s former police commander who was expected to start this week in the
sacked for opposing a move by the president Johannesburg High Court.
to extend his term. (Defence Web-Article Link) (Defence Web-Article Link)
ETHIOPIA – 04/19/2021 : EGYPT – 04/20/2021 :
Eritrea admits presence in Egypt targets cell
Ethiopia’s Tigray, tells UN suspected of killing
withdrawing : Eritrea told Christian in Sinai :
the United Nations Security Council on Friday Egyptian security forces
that it has agreed to start withdrawing its have shot dead three suspected Islamist
troops from Ethiopia’s Tigray region, militants accused of targeting Coptic
acknowledging publicly for the first time the Christians and involvement in the execution-
country’s involvement in the conflict. style killing of a 62-year-old man in North
(Defence Web-Article Link) Sinai, the interior ministry said on Monday.
(Defence Web-Article Link)
CAMEROON – 04/19/2021 :
Freed Cameroon Captives SOUTH AFRICA –
Says Separatists Chopped 04/20/2021 : Less than
Off Their Ears and Fingers half of SAPS aircraft are
: Cameroon's military has freed nine civilians operational : Of the South
who say they were held hostage by African Police Service
anglophone separatists for close to two (SAPS) Air Wing’s 34 aircraft, only 15 are
months. Some of the freed hostages say the operational and the rest are undergoing
rebels tortured them, chopping off their ears maintenance or grounded after incidents.
and fingers. (VOA-Article Link) (Defence Web-Article Link)
KENYA – 04/19/2021 : NIGERIA – 04/20/2021 :
COVID-19 : Kenyans Suspected ISWAP
caught up in curfew amid Jihadists Storm Army
slow Africa vaccine drive Base in Nigeria’s Borno
: Police blocked roads after State : A military source and
the East African nation imposed a nighttime residents the militants had attacked the base
curfew to curb a third wave of coronavirus around 1700 GMT on Sunday and stole
infection. (DW-Article Link) weapons. (The Defense Post-Article Link)
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CHAD – 04/20/2021 : SOUTH AFRICA –
Chad's Idriss Deby re- 04/20/2021 : Police
elected amid rebel commended for handling
offensive : President Idriss of Mthatha protest :
Déby Itno, who has ruled Chad for 30 years, National Police
was re-elected for a sixth term with 79.32 Commissioner, General Khehla Sitole, has
percent of the vote, according to official commended the Public Order Police (POP)
results released Monday shortly after the unit attached to the Qonce policing precinct
army said it had defeated a rebellion launched for the manner in which they handled a violent
on election day April 11 and killed "more than protest. (Defence Web-Article Link)
300 enemies. (Africa News-Article Link)
CHAD – 04/20/2021 :
SOUTH AFRICA – Chad President Killed in
04/20/2021 : 900 service Battle with Rebels; Son to
delivery protests in South Lead Ruling Military
Africa over six months : Council : Chad’s army
South Africa recorded more says President Idriss Deby has been killed in
than 900 service delivery protests in six months clashes with rebels, ending his 30-year grip on
from August to January, according to Minister power in the Central African nation.
of Police Bheki Cele, as the pandemic did little (VOA-Article Link)
to halt them. (Defence Web-Article Link)
ETHIOPIA – 04/20/2021 :
AFRICA – 04/20/2021 : The Eighteen killed in
devastating effects of clashes between
uncontrolled arms in Africa Ethiopia’s Oromo,
: Armed conflict is one of Amhara groups : Clashes
Africa’s greatest challenges and has cost the between people belonging to Ethiopia’s two
continent unquantifiable human and financial largest ethnic groups, the Oromo and
losses for decades. Despite efforts by local Amhara, killed at least 18 people late last
and international stakeholders to bring lasting week, local officials said on Monday, the latest
peace to the continent, the crises worsen by outbreak of violence ahead of national
the day, owing to the proliferation of small elections in June. (Defence Web-Article Link)
arms and light weapons (SALWs) in many
African communities. (Defence Web-Article Link) HORN OF AFRICA –
04/20/2021 : Ethiopia,
MOZAMBIQUE – 04/20/2021 Eritrea, Somalia,
: 40,000 displaced in north Djibouti: The constant
Mozambique after assault instability in the Horn of
on Palma : Some 40,000 Africa : Over the past three decades, the
displaced and urgently needing food, work Horn of Africa has acquired a bad reputation
suspended on a multi-billion-dollar gas as a notoriously unstable subregion with a
investment, and scores of dead still being highly volatile socio-political framework. (The
counted. (AP News-Article Link) Africa Report-Article Link)
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CHAD – 04/20/2021 : Rebels AFRICA – 04/21/2021 :
vow to take capital after Africom briefs Congress
Chadian president killed : on future threats and
Chad's president of three opportunities in Africa :
decades died of wounds suffered during a visit General Stephen
to front-line troops battling a shadowy rebel Townsend, Commander of the US military’s
group, the military announced Tuesday, just Africa Command (Africom) briefed Congress
hours after he was declared the winner of an on future threats and opportunities in Africa as
election that would have given him another six well as the importance of US engagement as
years in power. (Africa News-Article Link) part of the command’s annual Posture
Statement. (Defence Web-Article Link)
AFRICA – 04/20/2021 : Sudan
briefs Security Council on ETHIOPIA – 04/21/2021 :
Nile Dam crisis : Khartoum Tigray crisis in 6th month,
says unilateral filling of 'no clear end' : UNICEF
Ethiopian dam will harm regional peace, says over 1 million people
urges quartet mediation. (AA-Article Link) have been displaced,
fighting continues in Tigray region of Horn of
D.R. CONGO – 04/20/2021 : African country. (AA-Article Link)
'Over 120 wounded in DR
Congo protests, violence' : NIGERIA – 04/21/2021 :
Reports of children going Aresa launches first
missing amid violence during anti-UN Nigerian patrol boat :
protests, says Int'l Committee of the Red Spain’s Grup Aresa
Cross. (AA-Article Link) Internacional has launched
the first of four Aresa 1700 inshore patrol
ETHIOPIA – 04/20/2021 : boats on order for the Nigerian Navy.
(Defence Web-Article Link)
Ethiopia’s Tigray Conflict
Strips Children of
Protection, Education, WEST AFRICA –
Nutrition, UNICEF Says : 04/21/2021 : Deby's death
The U.N. children’s fund warns the conflict in to create 'vacuum' in fight
Ethiopia’s northern Tigray province is against terror : Nigerian
stripping tens of thousands of children of their president says Chad's Idriss Deby played a
rights, plunging them into a protection crisis very active role in military campaign against
that is causing them unimaginable long- Boko Haram. (AA-Article Link)
lasting harm. (VOA-Article Link)
CENTRAL AFRICAN
LIBYA – 04/20/2021 : REPUBLIC – 04/21/2021 :
Algeria urges efforts to Refugees arrive in Chad
restore security to Libya : following recent clashes
Algerian foreign minister visits in CAR : Refugees fled
Tripoli for talks with Libyan officials. clashes as well as acts of violence, pillaging
(AA-Article Link) or extortion from rebel groups. (AA-Article Link)
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NIGERIA – 04/21/2021 : SOUTH AFRICA –
Gunmen storm Nigeria's 04/22/2021 : SAAF helos
Kaduna University, kills part of Table Mountain
staffer, abduct students : firefighting efforts : The SA
Gunmen have attacked a private university in Air Force’s (SAAF’s) Western Cape-based 22
Nigeria's northern Kaduna state, killing one Squadron, with pair of Oryx medium-transport
staff member and kidnapping some students, rotorcraft, contributed in no small measure,
police and officials said Wednesday. alongside other disaster management
(Africa News-Article Link) elements, to bringing raging fires in the Table
Mountain National Park (TMNP) and adjacent
MALI – 04/21/2021 : Mali areas under control in spite of bad weather
Soldiers ‘Killed, Mistreated, conditions. (Defence Web-Article Link)
Disappeared’ Dozens of
People : HRW : The NGO ETHIOPIA – 04/22/2021 : UN :
claims that Malian soldiers have taken the Tigray's humanitarian crisis
lives of at least 34 villagers. worsens, no Eritrean exit :
(The Defense Post-Article Link) The U.N. humanitarian chief
warned Thursday that the grave humanitarian
KENYA – 04/21/2021 : crisis in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region is
Kenya’s police crack whip deteriorating, with no sign of Eritrean troops
on curfew violators elicits withdrawing and alarmingly widespread
mixed reactions : Kenya’s reports of systematic rape and other sexual
police recent crackdown on the curfew violence mainly by men in uniform.
violators on major city roads has elicited (Africa News-Article Link)
mixed reactions across the East African
country. (Africa News-Article Link) SOUTH AFRICA –
04/22/2021 : SANParks
CENTRAL AFRICAN records another successful
REPUBLIC – 04/21/2021 : anti-poaching operation in
Summit of Heads of States in the KNP : South African National Parks
Angola focuses on political (SANParks) has announced another
crisis in C.A.R : The political and security operation that led to the arrest of three
situation in the Central African Republic was suspected poachers on Wednesday 21 April
the focus for Heads of States who attended a in the Crocodile Bridge Section of the Kruger
mini-summit in the Angolan capital Launda National Park (KNP). (Defence Web-Article Link)
Tuesday. (Africa News-Article Link)
CHAD – 04/22/2021 :
IVORY COAST – 04/21/2021 Chad's opposition slams
: Ivorian Soldier Injured in 'coup' as major powers
Attack on Military Camp : quiet on army takeover :
Three assailants were killed. Chad's main opposition parties on
Gunmen injured an Ivorian soldier in an Wednesday denounced what they called an
overnight attack on a military camp near the "institutional coup d'etat" after the shock death
economic capital Abidjan that left three of newly re-elected president Idriss Deby Itno
assailants dead, the army said Wednesday. and his replacement by son Mahamat.
(The Defense Post-Article Link) (Africa News-Article Link)
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MOZAMBIQUE – 04/22/2021 : NIGERIA – 04/23/2021 :
Limited legal options for Gunmen attack Kaduna
SADC military action in Cabo hospital, abduct two
Delgado : A comprehensive response is nurses : Barely 24 hours
better than military action, not least because after gunmen abducted
of the difficulties in putting boots on the students of Greenfield
ground. (ISS-Article Link) University in Kaduna state, two nurses who
worked overnight at the General hospital in
KENYA – 04/23/2021 : Kenya Idon of Kajuru Local Government Area of the
commissions C-145 state were abducted by gunmen on Thursday
Skytrucks : The Kenya Air morning. (The Citizen-Article Link)
Force (KAF) has commissioned
its recently acquired C-145 Skytruck transport UGANDA – 04/23/2021 :
aircraft into service, which will ultimately help Will Total confront
replace the accident-prone Y-12 fleet. another Islamic State-
(Defence Web-Article Link) linked insurgency in
Uganda ? : After
NIGERIA – 04/23/2021 : retreating from ISIS-Mozambique, the French
Nigeria beefs up border to company is tapping oil in Uganda, in the
avoid Chadian influx – backyard of ISIS-DRC. (ISS-Article Link)
defence minister : Nigeria has reinforced its
border security to avoid a potential influx of CHAD – 04/23/2021 :
Chadians following the death of Chad’s leader France backs army take
Idriss Deby, the defence minister said on over in Chad : Chad’s
Thursday. (Defence Web-Article Link) former colonial ruler,
France, yesterday,
CHAD – 04/22/2021 : The defended the military
death of President Idriss take over following the death of President
Déby risk further Idriss Deby, saying it was necessary for
destabilising the region : security amid ‘exceptional circumstances’.
(The Citizen-Article Link)
Chadian President Idriss Déby, who had been
in power for 30 years, died tuesday as a result
of injuries sustained in combat. LIBYA – 04/23/2021 :
(Africa News-Article Link) Still unbowed and
undeterred : More
MALI – 04/23/2021 : Germany migrants perish off
to Expand Military Mission in Libya's coast : More
War-Torn Mali : The than 100 Europe-bound
expansion includes building a migrants are feared dead in a shipwreck off
training base in central Mali. The German Libya, independent rescue groups said, in the
government has approved plans to expand latest loss of life as attempts to cross the
the country’s military mission in Mali as rebel Mediterranean increase during the warmer
and extremist groups continue to pose a months. (Africa News-Article Link)
threat to national security.
(The Defense Post-Article Link)
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NIGERIA – 04/23/2021 : MOZAMBIQUE –
Buhari recycles 04/26/2021 : Cabo
another threat to killer Delgado insurgents
bandits, terrorists : pose an increasing
President Muhammadu maritime risk – Dryad :
Buhari has issued yet The recent attacks on the
another hollow threat against rampaging coastal town of Palma, Cabo Delgado, over
terrorists in Nigeria’s Northwest, ordering the the past few weeks by Islamic State affiliated
security agencies to step up their acts. Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jamamah (ASWJ), prove
(The Citizen-Article Link) what some security experts have feared, that
the insurgency is posing an increasing threat.
(Defence Web-Article Link)
AFRICAN UNION –
04/24/2021 : AU calls
for restoration of CHAD – 04/26/2021 :
civilian rule in Chad : Chad's transitional
The African Union (AU) govt says won't
called Friday evening for negotiate with
the restoration of civilian rule in Chad, where regrouping rebels :
General Mahamat Idriss Déby took power this Chad's new military
week following the death of his father Idriss transitional government said it will not
Déby Itno. (Africa News-Article Link) negotiate with the rebels blamed for killing the
country's president Idriss Deby.
(Africa News-Article Link)
CHAD – 04/25/2021 :
Civil society calls for
protest against new ZIMBABWE –
Transitional Council : 04/26/2021 : Air Force
Chad's civil society of Zimbabwe AB412
groups are calling for a crash kills four : Three
public demonstration, demanding the people have died after
dissolution of the Transitional Military Council, an Air Force of
which is headed by the new leader General Zimbabwe Agusta Bell 412 helicopter crashed
Mahamat Idriss Déby. (Africa News-Article Link) into a house on 23 April.
(Defence Web-Article Link)
SOMALIA – 04/26/2021
: Gunfire erupts in MOZAMBIQUE –
Somalia as fears 04/26/2021 : Red Cross
mount over civil war : pulling out the stops in
Gunfire erupted in Cabo Delgado : The
Somalia’s capital on International Committee
Sunday between soldiers loyal to the of the Red Cross (ICRC)
government and others angry at the country’s is concerned by recent violence in Palma, in
leader as tensions spike over President Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province to the
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed’s extended extent it is implementing special actions.
(Defence Web-Article Link)
stay in power. (Africa News-Article Link)
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