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MEDIA MONITORING
« INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENSE »
From July 5th to 12th, 2021
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AFRICA
ETHIOPIA – 07/05/2021 : NIGERIA – 07/06/2021 :
Ethiopian government Kaduna : Has Nigeria failed
chooses to foster period of to stop kidnappings ? :
silence in Tigray : Ethiopian Nigeria said Thursday it had
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed In an address to sent special police units to go after gunmen
parliament on Monday expressed that his who kidnapped several dozens of students in
federal government has chosen -- not out of an attack on a school on Monday morning.
military necessity, to foster a period of silence (Africa News-Article Link)
to reflect on what is to come as far as the
nations’ northern region Tigray -- the scene of GHANA – 07/06/2021 :
civil war for eight months. Opposition youth activists
(Africa News-Article Link)
rally against federal police
force : Thousands of activists
GABON – 07/05/2021 : gathered in the streets of Accra on Tuesday.
Children survive scavenging They marched for justice in peaceful protest
for items at garbage dump to of Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo's
sell : Gabonese children government and violence from the police --
wander around Mindoubé landfill in Libreville who killed two and injured four demonstrators
in search of copper or aluminium items buried in the south of the country at the end of June.
within the unsanitary and unsafe dozens of (Africa News-Article Link)
metres high mountain of garbage -- which also
spans hundreds of metres in length. NIGERIA – 07/06/2021 :
(Africa News-Article Link)
Distressed parents await
news of abducted students
SENEGAL – 07/05/2021 : New in Nigeria's northwest :
Senegal anti-terror laws Distressed parents wait for news of their
threaten rights, warns HRW : children at a Nigerian school on Monday.
Human Rights Watch on Several of them gathered infront of the Bethel
Monday urged Senegal to revise new anti- Baptist High School premises as news of the
terror legislation that it warned could stifle kidnapping broke Monday afternoon.
government criticism by punishing political (Africa News-Article Link)
speech and protests as "terrorist acts".
(Africa News-Article Link)
TUNISIA – 07/06/2021 : Local
charities in Tunisia's south
EGYPT – 07/05/2021 : Egypt welcome migrants from sub-
Unveils New Naval Base on Saharan Africa : Local charity
Mediterranean Sea : Egyptian organizations in Tunisia’s south are helping
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi migrants from other African countries to
on Saturday led the inauguration of a new integrate. In the under-developed southern
strategic naval base located on the city of Medenine, the migrants are being
Mediterranean Sea, near the country’s border taught how to sow. (Africa News-Article Link)
with Libya. (The Defense Post-Article Link)
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ESWATINI – 07/06/2021 : SUDAN – 07/06/2021 : Sudan
Missed the ongoing crisis needs the ICC for more than its
in eSwatini ? Here's what Darfur war crimes : As
you need to know : Since insecurity in the country increases, preventing
May, protests have rocked the small human rights atrocities is as important as
landlocked southern Africa kingdom of justice for al-Bashir regime crimes.
eSwatini. (Africa News-Article Link) (ISS-Article Link)
TOGO – 07/06/2021 : Nine GHANA – 07/06/2021 : Sandock
jailed in first Togo pirate Austral and Petram Fortis team
trial : Nine pirates who up to offer maritime security
attempted to hijack a ship in solutions to Ghana : Sandock Austral, the
Togolese waters in May 2019 have been largest black-owned shipyard in Africa, and
sentenced to prison terms ranging from 12 to Ghanaian defence contractor Petram Fortis,
20 years during a trial at a Lome court. (Africa have teamed up to offer world class maritime
News-Article Link) security solutions to Ghana through the newly
established joint venture Petram Sandock
ALGERIA – 07/06/2021 : Maritime Systems. (Defence Web-Article Link)
200 sick after bathing in
suspected polluted water : SOUTH AFRICA – 07/06/2021 :
Nearly 200 people were More border security
briefly hospitalised on Sunday after swimming successes for SANDF soldiers
in seawater suspected to have been polluted : SA National Defence Force (SANDF)
at Tenes, in northwestern Algeria, local members deployed along South Africa’s
authorities and media said. borders on Operation Corona duty have
(Africa News-Article Link) recovered another stolen vehicle and
contraband. (Defence Web-Article Link)
MALI – 07/06/2021 : Mali
seeks to arrest son of ex- ZIMBABWE – 07/07/2021 :
president Keita : Interpol Zimbabwe returns to strict
has issued an arrest warrant lockdown amid vaccine
for this man; Karim Keita, the eldest son of shortages : Zimbabwe has returned to strict
former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita who lockdown measures in a bid to combat a
was overthrown in 2020 by a coup. resurgence of Covid-19 amid vaccine
(Africa News-Article Link) shortages, information Monica Mutsvangwa
announced Tuesday. (Africa News-Article Link)
LIBYA – 07/06/2021 :
Promoting Lasting Stability BURUNDI – 07/07/2021 : East
in Libya : Washington's long- African intelligence chiefs call
term ambitions in the country for united front against
should be geared towards reducing the terrorism : Rebel groups and terrorist forces
influence of Turkey and Russia. are in disarray and would soon be neutralised
(The Defense Post-Article Link)
across East Africa. (Africa News-Article Link)
© 2021 The Casablanca Club, All rights reserved 3NIGERIA – 07/07/2021 : Over 120 ETHIOPIA – 07/07/2021 :
students missing after Nigeria Ethiopia says aid flights to
school raid- church official : Tigray allowed, but none
About 125 students were still missing on appears to have taken off :
Wednesday but 28 others had been re-united Ethiopia said on Wednesday that it had
with their families after an attack by armed allowed humanitarian flights to its northern
men on a boarding school in Nigeria’s Kaduna Tigray region this week, amid concerns that
state, the head of the Kaduna Baptist aid is not reaching people facing famine, but
conference said. (Defence Web-Article Link) the civil aviation head said no such flights had
yet left the capital. (Defence Web-Article Link)
MOZAMBIQUE – 07/07/2021 :
WFP warns displaced AFRICA – 07/07/2021 : Drones
Mozambicans risk facing food in the hands of insurgents:
crisis, calls for help : The United Nations how Africa can prepare : Like
World Food programme is warning that in the Middle East, drones are a
hundreds of displaced people in Mozambique new threat posed by armed groups and violent
risk facing an imminent food crisis. extremists in Africa. (ISS-Article Link)
(Africa News-Article Link)
TUNISIA – 07/08/2021 :
SOUTH SUDAN – 07/07/2021 : Tunisia launches another
South Sudan refugees long to domestic patrol boat;
return home 10 years after authorises new 50 m vessel :
independence : A decade ago, South The Tunisian Navy has received another 27
Sudanese Rosa Ghobrial packed up her life in metre long locally built patrol boat, and will be
Sudan to start anew in the newly independent getting a locally built 51 metre offshore patrol
South, but she has since been stranded in a vessel after its manufacture was approved by
ramshackle camp awaiting repatriation. Defence Minister Ibrahim Bartaji.
(Africa News-Article Link) (Defence Web-Article Link)
KENYA – 07/07/2021 : Protesters NIGERIA – 07/08/2021 :
clash with police in Nairobi over India’s HAL training Nigerian
Covid curfews, brutality : Dozens Army pilots : Hindustan
of angry protesters clashed with police in the Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has
Kenyan capital of Nairobi on Wednesday as started flying training for Nigerian Army
they demanded an end to lockdowns and Aviation pilots, who have joined the Indian
curfews put in place to combat the spread of company’s Rotary Wing Academy.
the coronavirus. (Africa News-Article Link) (Defence Web-Article Link)
NIGERIA – 07/08/2021 : Bandits MALI – 07/08/2021 : Going for
Kill 18 in Northwest Nigeria Raid gold in western Mali
: The “bandits” are known to hide in threatens human security :
camps in the Rugu forest which straddles Uncontrolled artisanal gold
Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna, and Niger states mining in Kayes is damaging the environment
from where they launch attacks on and fuelling trafficking and local conflicts.
communities. (The Defense Post-Article Link) (ISS-Article Link)
© 2021 The Casablanca Club, All rights reserved 4NIGERIA – 07/08/2021 : SOUTH AFRICA – 07/08/2021 :
Nigerian lawmakers SAMHS vaccination sites
approve $2.4 billion to fight ensure countrywide coverage
violence, fund vaccines : : Military medical personnel are – as from
Nigeria’s parliament passed a 983 billion naira today (Thursday, 8 July) – on COVID-19
($2.4 billion) supplementary budget on inoculation duty in all nine South Africa’s
Wednesday to address rising insecurity in the provinces and ready, willing and able to assist
country and fund COVID-19 vaccines. the wider military community in its efforts to
(Defence Web-Article Link) beat coronavirus. (Defence Web-Article Link)
MOZAMBIQUE – 07/08/2021 : TUNISIA – 07/08/2021 : 40
SIPRI warns arms for migrants taken to Tunisia
Mozambique will not after boat failure : 40 migrants
necessarily end insurgency : As the were rescued aboard trying to reach Italy on
Southern African Development Community Wednesday after the vessel they were in
(SADC) mulls options with regard to military broke down. (Africa News-Article Link)
intervention in Mozambique, the Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute
(SIPRI) maintains adding new armament to NIGERIA – 07/08/2021 :
the Mozambican armed forces (FADM) Bandits kill 18 in northwest
arsenal is not necessarily in the interests of Nigeria raid : Armed attackers
ending violence in the northern part of the east known as bandits have killed 18 people in a
African country. (Defence Web-Article Link) raid on a village in northwest Nigeria's Katsina
state, police told AFP Wednesday.
(Africa News-Article Link)
D.R. CONGO – 07/08/2021 :
Hope for end to eastern DRC SAHEL – 07/09/2021 : As
violence : A new government France shrinks its Barkhane
action plan in Democratic force, jihadi threat grows in
Republic of the Congo (DRC) can reverse the the Sahel : During a grueling, weeks-long
tragic deterioration in the country’s east, mission in northern Mali, French soldiers were
where thousands of human rights abuses are confronted by a familiar threat: Extremists
committed against civilians by armed trying to impose the same strict Islamic rule
militants, the senior UN official in the country that preceded France’s military intervention
told the Security Council. here more than eight years ago.
(Defence Web-Article Link)
(Africa News-Article Link)
D.R. CONGO – 07/08/2021 : NIGER – 07/09/2021 : Niger sets
On the trail of the DR Congo's goal of returning 130,000
dreaded ADF militia : For Nigerian refugees by year-end :
more than twenty years, the Niger and the state of Borno in neighbouring
Beni region of the eastern Democratic Nigeria have struck a deal for the return this
Republic of Congo has been engulfed in year of more than 130,000 Nigerian refugees,
conflict between rival rebel groups. Niger's president Mohamed Bazoum said
(Africa News-Article Link)
Friday. (Africa News-Article Link)
© 2021 The Casablanca Club, All rights reserved 5MALI – 07/09/2021 : MALI – 07/09/2021 : Spanish
France to start closing NH90s arrive in Mali : The
military bases in Mali by Spanish Army has sent its first
the end of the year : NH90 helicopter to Mali as part
French President of the European Union Training Mission
Emmanuel Macron said Friday that France (EUTM) in Mali. (Defence Web-Article Link)
would begin closing its bases in northern Mali
before the end of the year, as part of a SOMALIA – 07/10/2021 : At
drawdown of French troops fighting Islamist least nine dead in Al-
extremists in the Sahel. Shabaab suicide car
(Africa News-Article Link)
bombing : At least nine
people pronounced dead after a car bomb
SOUTH AFRICA – targeting a top police chief exploded in
07/09/2021 : South Africa Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Saturday.
extends vaccinations to (Africa News-Article Link)
under-50s as Covid cases
soar : South Africa announced Friday it would SOUTH AFRICA –
start vaccinating people under 50 years old as 07/11/2021 : Supporters
the continent's hardest-hit country buckles demand Zuma's release via
under a vicious third wave of Covid-19 fiery protests in KwaZulu-
infections driven by the Delta variant. Natal : Roads block off several trucks and
(Africa News-Article Link)
commercial property set ablaze since Friday
in KwaZulu-Natal -- the home of former South
NIGERIA – 07/09/2021 : African president Jacob Zuma, whose
Nigeria getting two supporters have been on a fiery rampage and
presidential AW189 looting spree in protest of his 15-month prison
helicopters amongst sentence. (Africa news-Article Link)
other acquisitions : The Nigerian
presidential air fleet will soon be receiving two
new AW189 VIP helicopters from Italy’s RWANDA – 07/11/2021 :
Leonardo Helicopters, while Super Tucanos Rwanda deploys 1000
and Chinese unmanned aerial vehicles will be troops to Mozambique in
delivered this month. (Defence Web-Article Link) SADC anti-jihadist mission :
Rwanda sent members of its defence forces
and officers from its national police to northern
SOUTH AFRICA – Mozambique on Saturday.
07/09/2021 : Soldiers not to (Africa News-Article Link)
evict, assault or harass
Happiness Village NIGER – 07/12/2021 : 49
residents : Parliament has been assured Killed in Niger Armed Attack
soldiers and other national defence force : Jihadist attacks targeting
personnel stationed at Marievale will not civilians have multiplied since
interfere in any way with people in the the start of the year with more than 300 people
Happiness Village informal settlement killed in three series of assaults against
adjacent to the Gauteng military base. villages and camps in the west of the country.
(Defence Web-Article Link)
(The Defense Post-Article Link)
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