• Sambisa Forest: The quest for peace, socio-economic stability in Lake Chad basin

    commitment is imperative to address one of the worst global environmental disasters triggered by prolonged conflict in the Sahel region. Zagazola Makama, is a Counter Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst in the Lake Chad Region.

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Zagazola Makama
    • Category: Breaking News

  • How ISWAP, NJIM, are getting fuel through Kebbi- Niger - Benin and Burkina Faso

    Terrorists Marchants secretly transport large quantities of Fuel, ammunition, and other logistics to terrorist groups in the Sahel and West African region through these routes. Sometimes, they passed through Benin Republic to get to Kompienga, one of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Zagazola Makama
    • Category: Breaking News

  • W/Africa under clear, present danger of terrorism – ECOWAS

    Peace, and Security, said this at a news conference in Abuja on Friday. “Initially confined to certain countries in the Sahel (Mali and Niger) and the Lake Chad Basin (Nigeria), terrorist attacks have multiplied and spread to other countries (Burkina...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Zagazola Makama
    • Category: Breaking News

  • Borno records 39,000 cases of gender-based violence in 13 years

    ago where we met their representatives. ”They invited us to OSLO. It has to do with the deradicalisation process within the Sahel and West Africa,” she said. According to her, the Borno model of deradicalisation of insurgents has become a global...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Zagazola Makama
    • Category: Breaking News

  • Scores of terrorists killed as ISWAP/Boko Haram clash in NE

    both sides. The in-fighting between the two terrorist rival groups has worsened a fresh flow of arms and combatants from the Sahel ISIS to join ISWAP in the Chad Basin to restrengthen control of its enclaves from Boko Haram.

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Zagazola Makama
    • Category: Breaking News

  • Insurgency: Defence Minister, Service Chiefs visit Maiduguri

    with Niger, Cameroon and Chad Republics. “We have to ensure that we don’t have safe haven for ISWAP in the northeast as the Sahel is now a major problem,

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Zagazola Makama
    • Category: Breaking News

  • French  Government speaks on  renewed partnerships between France and African countries 

    to fully engage with the representatives of the nation. The questions that have been born of the successive crises in the Sahel are equally legitimate. I will come back later to our action concerning that region over the last decade, but I would first...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Zagazola Makama
    • Category: Breaking News

  • Nigerian Military and the Repeated Pledge of Safeguarding Democracy

    for 44.4%. “Since 2010, there have been over 40 coups and attempted coups in Africa; some 20 occurred in West Africa and the Sahel (including Chad). Since 2019 there have been 9 (seven successful and two failed). “Between 1958 and 2008, most coups in...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Zagazola Makama
    • Category: Breaking News

  • How French forces helped  Nigerien armed forces in combating terrorism

    of AQIM and Ansar Eddine. "On 21 February 2019, the leader of one of the main armed terrorist groups operating in the Sahel, Yahia Abou el Hammam, number two in the RVIM (Rally for the Victory of Islam and Muslims) was neutralized ; in October 2019,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Zagazola Makama
    • Category: Breaking News

  • Niger must take full responsibility for the protection of the premises of diplomatic missions in the country- France 

    until 1960. Until last Wednesday’s coup, Niger had been seen as the West’s reliable partner battling jihadists in Africa’s Sahel region.

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Zagazola Makama
    • Category: Breaking News

  • SECURITY CONSULTANT ALIYU GEBI TASK NEW ECOWAS CHAIRMAN

    a clear policy of engagement from Security to the Economy and the general political stability of the Region. An unstable Sahel makes for an insecure Nigeria. A secure Nigeria means a prosperous Sahel” “Now should also be the time to start moving from an...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Zagazola Makama
    • Category: Breaking News

  • UN highlights support for Africa’s fight against terrorism

    more than five years. The secretary-general expressed deep concern over the gains which terrorist groups were making in the Sahel and other parts of Africa. “Despair, poverty, hunger, lack of basic services, unemployment, and unconstitutional changes in...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Zagazola Makama
    • Category: Breaking News

  • Buhari calls for strengthening early warning systems to limit conflicts in Africa

    the event. In Addis Ababa on Friday, President Buhari participated at the second Heads of State and Government Summit of the Sahel Region Climate Commission (SRCC). At the SRCC High-Level meeting, Buhari declared Nigeria’s readiness to host the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Zagazola Makama
    • Category: Breaking News

  • Terrorist kidnapped 50 women in Burkina Faso

    (village of Liki) and in another locality located next to West of Aribinda, in the province of Soum in Burkina Faso. Sahel regional governor Lieutenant-Colonel Rodolphe Sorgho said in a statement that the women had went out in search of fruits, when...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Zagazola Makama
    • Category: Breaking News

  • FEATURE: INCREASED RIVALRY BETWEEN AL-QAEDA/ISIS AFFILIATED GROUPS WITHIN THE SAHEL

    FEATURE: INCREASED RIVALRY BETWEEN AL-QAEDA/ISIS AFFILIATED GROUPS WITHIN THE SAHEL By: Zagazola Makama From 20 Oct - 02 Nov 22, trends of terrorist attacks covering the republics of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger worsened unprecedentedly. The region...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Zagazola Makama
    • Category: Breaking News

  • NEW FORCE COMMANDER OPERATION BARKHANE VISITS HQ MULTINATIONAL JOINT TASK FORCE AS NEW COMMANDER SECTOR 1 MNJTF TAKES OVER

    Operation Barkhane is a French led ongoing anti insurgent operation that started in 2014 against Islamist groups in the Sahel region. The Deputy Force Commander, Chief of Staff, Commander Centre for Coordination and Liason (CCL) and other MNJTF heads of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Zagazola Makama
    • Category: Breaking News

  • Antonio Guterres arrives Maiduguri, Nigeria

    families displaced by the Boko Haram-ISWAP violence and climate change crisis. He appeals to the world not to give up on the Sahel region where millions of people suffer some of the most devastating consequences crisis including hunger and displacement....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Zagazola Makama
    • Category: Breaking News

  • Guterres calls for more resources to fight terror attacks in Africa’s Sahel  

    Guterres calls for more resources to fight terror attacks in Africa’s Sahel UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for more resources to fight terror attacks in Africa’s Sahel as the number of attacks in the region continues to increase....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Zagazola Makama
    • Category: Breaking News

  • How Locally Fabricated EIDs Power ISWAP's Desperate Battle of Survival

    with support of the combined troops of the Multination Joint Task Force (MNJTF), Niger and Cameroon in the ongoing Operation Sahel and Desert Sanity on the shores of the Sambisa Forest and the LakeChad. The Boko Haram/ISWAP unconventional bombs have...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Zagazola Makama
    • Category: Breaking News

  • MNJTF uncovers VBIED production site with 5 vehicles in various stages of completion

    massive terrain; complex waterways; tunnels; Hills, Islands, deep forest and waste lands aimed at making the Lake Chad and Sahel region untenable for the Boko Haram/ISWAP. The MNJTF renewed and massive clearance operations was to completely decimate the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Zagazola Makama
    • Category: Breaking News
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