The conflict in Mali is spilling over to Burkina Faso and Niger, with a significant surge of attacks by extremist groups in border areas over past months, the UN envoy for West Africa warned Thursday.
Mohamed Ibn Chambas said deadly attacks along border areas were having an impact on the local economy in the northern provinces of Burkina Faso and western regions of Niger.
"In the Sahel, persistent instability in Mali is spilling over to Burkina Faso and Niger, with deadly attacks along border areas," Chambas told the UN Security Council.
The Liptako Gourma region, which encompasses the border areas of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, "has seen a significant expansion of violent extremist and terrorist activities in the past months, including coordinated cross-border attacks against security posts and ransacking of border settlements," he said.
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More News On The Growing Instability In This Region Of Africa
UN envoy calls on Security Council to further support fight against terrorism in West Africa, Sahel -- UN News Centre
UN envoy warns of instability in Sahel and Lake Chad basin -- Washington Times
Ten Mali soldiers missing after ambush by suspected Islamists -- Reuters
Tuareg separatists seize north Mali town in battle -- Reuters
Burkina Faso forces repulse armed attack near Mali border -- Xinhuanet
Terrorism: Mali begs Nigerian Army for support -- Vanguard
8 comments:
This is what happens when Obama is president. This is the lag effect.
Obama did not bring home any girls, but he did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night and he had one mean hashtag campaign. It totally harshed Boko Haram.
Good Ole Boy Obama could not even take Joseph Kony out. That smacks of total incompetence on Obama's part. Little Eichmans on the Left were so out to get Kony in 2012. They had a video campaign and all the fix'ns. Yet after all that effort 5 years later, no Kony.
LMFAO, Boko Haram, the Chibock Girl's, are all Nigerian events,
Nigeria, not Niger, different countries, different revolts, different reasons, different militants,
3rd Country down on the map,
LMFAO,
This is alQuida/ Tuareg violence out of Mali,
You know, continued product of Bish II's post 9/11 Games and another one of his unwinnable wars,
https://newint.org/features/2012/12/01/us-terrorism-sahara/
LMFAO,
All Muslim terrorists, who cooperate with one another.
the GIA in Algeria started for a different reason and then affiliated with Al Qaeda
"Algerian and Western counterterrorism officials say that many members may have defected in recent years and joined al-Qaeda or its sister organization al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)."
"The group aligned with al-Qaeda in the 2000s to stage high-profile attacks and improve recruiting [PDF] and fundraising, analysts say. Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda’s leader, who was at the time second in command, announced the union on September 11, 2006, and GSPC rebranded itself as AQIM the following January"
These Islamic groups align with each other, steal members from each and cross borders.
Boko Haram has operated in at least 3 countries, Niger, Cameroon and Nigeria.
There is only 1 country between Nigeria and Mali, which is Niger and Boko Haram is there. So contrary to what the ex Scotsman says Nigeria is not the 3rd country down; it is the second. The countries in between are do not present that much distance between various Islamic groups as the crow flies or hodographically speaking.
Laughing my OSSOF
LMFAO,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/07/14/the-gops-moral-rot-is-the-problem-not-donald-trump-jr/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.5c4a4d5e9f3a
When you fuck up that badly with your alt-reich, ignorant, drunken rant's,
did you know that there's a delete button?
You don't have to actually double down on your idiocy.
LMFAO
You are truly amazing Jay.
You did not merely move the goal posts. You switched to another subject entirely.
Your were pwned!
Laughing my OSSOF!
The topics were Africa, Islamic terrorism, its growth, & what Obama failed to do.
I think it is that last one that really got your ire. I said Obama failed and you just had to retort about it.
BTW I see you shut up on the tower fire in London. Before Brexit European standards prevailed in construction and they were not as good as the British standards BSI BS8414-1 or BSI BS 8414-2. You clammed up there right quick bucko.
BTW have you read those standards? I sincerely doubt it, because they are behind a paywall.
You also do not know much about fire chemistry. Your greenie-weenie Leftist side won't allow your sweet self to go near any evil halogens.
More LMFAO
http://www.chicagonow.com/politics-now/2017/07/44-years-a-republican-1-year-an-independent-today-im-joining-the-democratic-party/
And jay is still off topic, cuz he got pwned really, really badly.
LMFAO
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