Regional and Global Security – Consulting-Studies.com

April 24, 2024

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Long before October 7, the conflict between Israel and Palestinians were on going but at another scale. Even after 2005 when Gaza disengaged from the enclave there were five Israeli wars. The Israeli authorities said that their policy (before October 7) was to “mow the lawn” – attempts to degrade Hamas’s military capabilities by indiscriminately […]

June 14, 2023

The Senegalese authorities have announced that it had opened investigations regarding the broadcasting of videos showing armed people in civilian clothes, accused of violently attacking demonstrators during the recent protests. The Interior Minister, Antoine Felix Abdoulaye Diome, has declared that an investigation is pending following the recent videos that emerged on the social media portraying […]

June 10, 2023

During Friday, the residents of Zawiya has said that the Libyan Ministry of Defense have used drones in order to bomb a fuel smuggling site in the city. The local social media posts have shown pictures of columns of smoke rising into the sky form the south of Zawiya near the Bir Muammar […]

May 30, 2023

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Recently, a Libyan court has condemned to death 23 jihadists convicted of fighting with the Islamic State group in the north African country. This was the first group of 320 alleged IS jihadists to be tried and sentenced. IS had captured the central coast city of Sirte in 2015, setting up a stronghold before being […]

May 14, 2023

After battles between armed groups in Zawiya, which left multiple people dead including civilians, Libyan security forces where deployed in order to maintain the situation. “We have deployed on the instructions of the supreme military authorities in the zones of combat, and succeeded thanks to mediation efforts by tribal leaders and city elders to halt […]

May 13, 2023

The heavy clashes between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have continued, contributing to a devastating humanitarian situation in and around Sudan. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured, while attacks on health facilities – at least 28 so far (WHO) – have severely weakened the health system’s capacity to […]

April 28, 2023

LYON, France – A counter-terrorism operation coordinated by INTERPOL with the support of AFRIPOL has enabled front line police across Central and Eastern Africa to arrest 14 terror suspects and seize explosives. The month-long (March – 23) operation, code named Tripartite Spider, was organized to support the ability of national Counter-Terrorism (CT) investigation teams to […]

April 17, 2023

“No age, no culture, no religion, no nationality and no region are immune to terrorism” declared António Guterres – Secretary-General of the United Nations. With terrorism and violent extremism spreading across Africa, counter-efforts must be applied in order to take into account the socioeconomic drivers of terrorism recruitment and the challenges posed by terrorist […]

March 24, 2023

The Sahel region of Africa is now the center of terrorism, accounting for more victims of jihadist activity in 2022 that the Middle East and North Africa combined. After, Afghanistan Burkina Faso reaches the second in the world for the most affected countries in 2022. Somalia, Mali and Syria occupy the 3rd, 4th and 5th […]

January 19, 2023

The remnants of war continue to make victims in Libya, even if the two political sides have agreed to enforce an ceasefire agreement. Yesterday, a ten year old boy has died after a remnant of war has exploded on a farm in Qasr Bin Ghashir, south of Tripoli. The Security Directorate of the Four Districts […]