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MEDIA MONITORING
« INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENSE »
From March 15th to 22nd, 2021
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AFRICA
SOUTH SUDAN – NIGERIA – 03/15/2021 :
03/15/2021 : Allies of Gunmen abduct 30
South Sudan militias students in northwest
must be held accountable Nigeria as payoffs
: UN human rights report : ‘boomerang’ : Gunmen
Military and political officials in South Sudan kidnapped around 30 students in an overnight
supporting community-based militias in the raid on a forestry college in northwest Nigeria,
Greater Jonglei region, must be held an official said on Friday, the fourth mass
accountable for violence that killed more than school abduction since December in a country
700 people over a six-month period last year, where violence is on the increase.
the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on (Defence Web-Article Link)
Monday. (UN News-Article Link)
CENTRAL AFRICAN
GUINEA GULF – REPUBLIC – 03/15/2021 :
03/15/2021 : Fifteen crew Central African Republic
kidnapped in Gulf of votes amid tight security
Guinea : The Gulf of after December violence
Guinea remains one of the : Almost all polling stations in Central African
most dangerous bodies of water worldwide for Republic were able to open for a second
seafarers with the International Maritime round of parliamentary elections on Sunday,
Bureau (IMB) urging ships and crew transiting the electoral body said, amid heavy security
it to “remain alert and not let their guard down to deter rebels who disrupted polls in
“. (Defence Web-Article Link) December. (Defence Web-Article Link)
NIGERIA – 03/15/2021 : LIBYA – 03/15/2021 : Irini
Islamist attacks kill about Mediterranean
30 soldiers in northeast inspections top the two
Nigeria in four days : thousand mark :
Islamist militants have Operation Irini, the EU
killed about 30 government soldiers in a series tasking enforcing a UN arms embargo on
of clashes in northeast Nigeria since Libya, investigated over 2 000 vessels in its first
Wednesday, military and civilian militia 11 months on the Mediterranean Sea.
sources said on Sunday. (Defence Web-Article Link)
(Defence Web-Article Link)
MOZAMBIQUE –
SOUTH AFRICA – 03/15/2021 : Triple C
03/15/2021 : Leadership threat facing
integrity and the crisis in Mozambique : Conflict,
South Africa’s policing : COVID-19 and climate
Long-standing abuses in change are, according to the UN Secretary-
the appointment of leaders are at the heart of General, the triple threat currently faced by
the country’s failing police service. South Africa’s eastern neighbour.
(ISS-Article Link) (Defence Web-Article Link)
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UGANDA – 03/15/2021 NIGERIA – 03/16/2021 :
: Uganda’s Bobi Wine Authorities
Briefly Detained After Investigate
Leading Street Protest Kidnapping of Three
: Ugandan police Teachers in Northern
Monday briefly detained Nigeria : Authorities in
opposition leader Bobi Wine as he led northern Nigeria are investigating the armed
opposition lawmakers and supporters in a kidnapping of three teachers from a primary
demonstration. (VOA-Article Link) school, four days after dozens of students
were taken from another school in Kaduna
MOZAMBIQUE – state. (VOA-Article Link)
03/15/2021 : US
forces to train HORN OF AFRICA –
Mozambique's 03/16/2021 : Kenya-
marines to fight Somalia dispute
jihadist insurgency : threatens an
US Special Operations Forces will train embattled Horn of
Mozambican marines for two months to fight Africa : Joint IGAD–AU
against the jihadist insurgency in the action is urgently
northeastern Cabo Delgado province, the needed to avoid further destabilisation of a
United States Embassy in Maputo said on region already wracked by violence.
Monday. (Africa News-Article Link) (ISS-Article Link)
ETHIOPIA – 03/15/2021 SOUTH AFRICA –
: Group Reports Health 03/16/2021 : Police
Facilities Looted in deny reports
Ethiopia’s Tigray : regarding shooting a
Health facilities in female protestor : The
Ethiopia’s embattled South African Police
region of Tigray have been “looted, Service (SAPS) has
vandalized and destroyed in a deliberate and denied shooting and wounding a person
widespread attack on health care,” the during the ongoing student protests in
humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders Johannesburg on Monday.
said Monday. (VOA-Article Link) (Defence Web-Article Link)
D.R. CONGO – CAMEROON –
03/16/2021 : 03/16/2021 :
Suspected Islamists Cameroon Says
kill at least a dozen Deaths from
villagers in eastern Consuming Fake
Congo : Attackers killed Alcohol Spike During
at least a dozen villagers in an overnight raid Pandemic : Authorities
on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of in Cameroon say the coronavirus pandemic
Congo, a witness and two civil rights groups has led to a spike in excessive drinking – and
said on Monday. (Defence Web-Article Link) in deaths from fake alcohol. (VOA-Article Link)
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ETHIOPIA – 03/16/2021 : SOUTH SUDAN –
'The fighting continues': A 03/16/2021 : South
Tigray town reels from Sudanese ‘one step away
drawn-out war : People from famine', as UN
react as they stand next to a mass grave launches humanitarian
containing the bodies of 81 victims of Eritrean response plan : As hunger levels continue to
and Ethiopian forces, killed during violence of deepen in South Sudan due to a combination
the previous months. (Africa News-Article Link) of violence, climate change and COVID-19,
the 2021 South Sudan Humanitarian
NIGERIA – 03/16/2021 : Response Plan was launched on Tuesday
Nigerian schools hit by aiming to reach 6.6 million people – including
mass abductions : An 350,000 refugees - with life-saving assistance
armed gang abducted three and protection. (UN News-Article Link)
primary school teachers in the northwest
Nigerian state of Kaduna on Monday. NIGERIA – 03/16/2021 :
(Defence Web-Article Link) UN Launches Billion-
Dollar Appeal for
MOZAMBIQUE – Nigeria's Victims of
03/16/2021 : Children Armed Conflict : The
among victims of jihadi United Nations is appealing for $1 billion to
rebels in Mozambique : help 6.4 million of Nigeria’s most vulnerable
Northern Mozambique’s humanitarian crisis is people, including two million who have been
growing rapidly, with nearly 670,000 people forced to flee their homes because of armed
displaced by the Islamic extremist insurgency conflict. (VOA-Article Link)
in Cabo Delgado province, international aid
groups said Tuesday. (AP News-Article Link) SOUTH AFRICA –
03/17/2021 : SANParks
KENYA – 03/16/2021 : welcomes successful
Kenya's fishermen protest prosecution of rhino
tensions in maritime poachers : The South
dispute with Somalia : African National Parks (SANParks) on
Fishermen of the Lamu County, on the Wednesday commended the National
Northen coast of Kenya, took to the sea with Prosecuting Authority in Mpumalanga on the
their dhows to protest against rising tensions successful prosecution of two long-standing
between the Kenyan and Somalian rhino poaching trials in the Mhala Regional
authorities, over their long-running maritime Court. (Defence Web-Article Link)
border dispute. (Africa News-Article Link)
MALI – 03/17/2021 :
MOROCCO – 03/16/2021 : Militants kill 11 Malian
Police break up soldiers in ambush, 11
Moroccan teachers’ others missing : Eleven
protest for fixed jobs : Malian soldiers were killed
Hundreds of teachers on temporary contracts and 11 more are missing after Islamist
protested Tuesday in the Moroccan capital to militants ambushed a patrol in the desert
demand permanent employment. north, the army said on Tuesday.
(AP News-Article Link) (Defence Web-Article Link)
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NIGER – 03/17/2021 : SOUTH AFRICA –
Armed men attack 03/17/2021 : Soldiers
passenger convoy and confiscate dagga, stolen
village in Niger, killing 58 : weapons on border
Armed men in southwestern safeguarding : Border
Niger killed at least 58 people when they safeguarding in the form of military vehicle
intercepted a convoy returning from a weekly control points and vehicle patrols yielded
market and attacked a nearby village, the successes in terms of narcotics, stolen
government said. (Defence Web-Article Link) weapons and a stolen vehicle this week.
(Defence Web-Article Link)
MOZAMBIQUE –
03/17/2021 : Mozambique ETHIOPIA – 03/17/2021 :
militants beheading Ethiopians protest
children as young as 11, deadly Yemen migrant
Save the Children says : centre blaze : The UN on
Children as young as 11 are being beheaded Tuesday called for a probe
in Mozambique, UK-based aid group Save the into a fire that killed dozens of migrants at a
Children said on Tuesday, as part of an holding facility in Yemen's capital, after
Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands Human Rights Watch said it was started by
and forced many magnitudes more from their Huthi rebels. (Africa News-Article Link)
homes. (Defence Web-Article Link)
LIBYA – 03/17/2021 :
AFRICA – 03/17/2021 : Libya arms embargo
Fake COVID-19 ‘totally ineffective’: UN
vaccines seized in SA expert panel : An arms
just the start for Africa embargo imposed on
: The lucrative market is Libya by the Security Council in 2011 remains
the latest in a “totally ineffective” a UN Panel of Experts has
burgeoning counterfeit medicines trade run by said, adding that civilians, including migrants
organised crime networks. (ISS-Article Link) and asylum seekers, continue to suffer
widespread rights violations and abuses.
(UN News-Article Link)
MOZAMBIQUE –
03/17/2021 : US names
Mozambique NIGERIA – 03/17/2021 :
insurgency leader as it Abducted Nigerian
sets its sights on the students are "safe":
ISIS-affiliated group : governor : The governor
ISIS is undeniably expanding from Iraq and of Nigeria's northwest
Syria to the corners of the globe. By now, it is state of Kaduna said on
public knowledge that ISIS is affiliated with the Tuesday the 39 students that were kidnapped
insurgency in Northern Mozambique along last week are "safe", but that his government
with other terrorist groups in Africa. will not "negotiate with the bandits" for their
(Defence Web-Article Link) release. (CGTN-Article Link)
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ETHIOPIA – 03/17/2021 : EGYPT – 03/18/2021 :
UN Rights Chief Agrees Egypt jails activist
to Ethiopia Request for who called to free
Joint Tigray Inquiry : prisoners amid
United Nations human pandemic : An
rights chief Michelle Bachelet has agreed to Egyptian court
an Ethiopian request for a joint investigation in sentenced prominent female activist Sanaa
the country's northern Tigray region, where Seif to a year and a half in prison on
Bachelet says possible war crimes may have Wednesday for spreading false news, her
been committed. (VOA-Article Link) sister and judicial sources said.
(Defence Web-Article Link)
MALI – 03/18/2021 : Death
IVORY COAST –
toll of recent attack on
03/18/2021 :
Malian army rises to 33 :
Information alone
Malian Armed Forces
won’t stop illegal
confirmed Wednesday that the death toll of
migration from Côte
the recent attack on Malian army in the region
d’Ivoire : Nearly half of
of Gao rose to 33, with 14 Malian soldiers
African countries have criminalised migrant
injured, making this the deadliest attack on
smuggling, and Côte d’Ivoire should follow
Malian army this year. (CGTN-Article Link)
suit. (ISS-Article Link)
NIGER – 03/18/2021 :
ALGERIA –
Fifty-eight killed in
03/18/2021 : As
'barbarous' Niger attacks
Algerian protests
near Mali border : Scenes
resume,
on the street and a market
demonstrators differ
in the Nigerien capital of Niamey. Despite little
on goals : Abdenour
sign of the first of a three-day mourning after
Ait Said and Mohamed Chabti both helped
attacks by suspected jihadists killed 58 people
topple Algeria’s veteran president nearly two
near the Mali border, residents and a
years ago by taking part in mass street
community leader express condemnation and
demonstrations against the ruling elite but
shock at the killings. (Africa News-Article Link)
they no longer agree on the protests.
(Defence Web-Article Link)
MOZAMBIQUE –
03/18/2021 : KENYA – 03/18/2021 :
Humanitarian crisis on Kenyan court says
the rise in Cabo Delgado police to blame for
- Mozambique : There is a death of girl after
growing humanitarian crisis in Cabo Delgado 2017 elections : A
province, in northern Mozambique. According Kenyan inquest has
to the "Aid to the Church in Need" Foundation ruled that police are to blame for the death of
, cases of cholera and malaria are increasing a 9-year-old girl during violence after the 2017
among the more than 600 thousand displaced elections, saying that if the police wanted to
persons fleeing the armed attacks in the find the girl’s killer, who remains at large, they
region. (Arica News-Article Link) could do so in a day. (Defence Web-Article Link)
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TUNISIA – 03/18/2021 : AFRICA – 03/18/2021 :
Tunisian court frees Unnamed African country
prominent women’s orders 100 DongFeng
activist : A Tunisian vehicles : An undisclosed
appeals court released on African country in 2020
Wednesday a prominent ordered 100 DongFeng Warrior armoured
women’s rights defender and LGBTI activist vehicles from China. (Defence Web-Article Link)
who had been jailed on charges of “insulting
police and abuse of morals”, her lawyers said, MALI – 03/18/2021 :
in a case that raised concerns about freedom Malians express doubt
of expression. (Defence Web-Article Link) over army's capacity to
counter Jihadist fighters :
SOUTH AFRICA – At least 33 soldiers were killed in an attack in
03/18/2021 : Defence northern Mali this week after one of two
Intelligence devastating attacks in the Sahel region since
effectiveness Monday. (Africa News-Article Link)
questioned : The lack or
withholding of intelligence NIGERIA – 03/18/2021 :
from the wider defence sector resulted in at Food Crisis : Igboho
least seven “disasters or embarrassments” for prepares to take over
Defence and Military Veterans Minister borders from
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula last year, a Immigration, Customs :
contributor to a National Assembly debate on Yoruba freedom fighter, Sunday Adeyemo,
crime and other intelligence maintains. popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has said
(Defence Web-Article Link)
that he is going to open up the borders in the
South-West to allow foodstuffs, particularly
MOROCCO – 03/18/2021 rice. (Newzandar News-Article Link)
: Morocco orders 300
VLRA light tactical
vehicles : The Royal LIBERIA – 03/18/2021 :
Moroccan Armed Forces Victims wait for ruling in
(RMAF) has ordered 300 VLRA-2 4×4 light lawsuit over Liberian
tactical military vehicles from France to massacre : A federal judge
strengthen the firepower and mobility of its in Philadelphia will decide if
special forces units. (Defence Web-Article Link) there’s enough evidence to rule in favor of
survivors of a 1990 massacre during Liberia’s
civil wars or whether a trial should take place.
NIGER – 03/18/2021 : (News Break-Article Link)
Bandits kidnap Pastor
Bitrus of Shiyona MOZAMBIQUE –
Church, demand N60m 03/18/2021 : The
ransom : Hoodlums and Mozambique Channel is
illegal tax collectors in the next security hotspot :
Cross River have physically assaulted and The waters off Mozambique
dehumanised two petty traders for allegedly are becoming a major new security hotspot in
not paying their tax. (News Break-Article Link) the Indian Ocean. (News Break-Article Link)
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SOUTH AFRICA – ETHIOPIA – 03/19/2021 :
03/18/2021 : China Critical Ethiopian
donates learning diplomat urges peace
equipment to SA talks in Tigray war : An
National Defence Ethiopian diplomat who
College : On 17 quit his post in the United States over
March, Ambassador of concerns about atrocities in Tigray is calling
China to South Africa, Chen Xiaodong, for peace talks between the government and
donated electronic learning equipment to the the embattled region’s fugitive leaders.
South African National Defence College in (AP News-Article Link)
Thaba Tshwane on behalf of the Chinese
military. (Defence Web-Article Link) NIGER – 03/19/2021 :
Niger to beef up security
NIGERIA – 03/19/2021 in the west following
: Miyetti Allah writes deadly attack : Soldiers
Police, reports have been reinforced in
missing 30 herdsmen, Western Niger, where suspected jihadists
322 cows in Anambra attacked on Monday. (Africa News-Article Link)
: The Miyetti Allah
Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria CENTRAL AFRICAN
(MACBAN) has written to the Police over REPUBLIC – 03/21/2021
attacks on Fulanis in Anambra State. : CAR ex-president
(News Break-Article Link)
takes over leadership of
rebel group fighting the
SUDAN – 03/19/2021 : govt : François Bozizé, is the new rebel
Fashaqa Flashpoint: leader in the Central African Republic. The
Sudanese Dream Of former president has officially taken over the
Reclaiming Fertile leadership of the CPC, the Coalition of
Land : Under a Patriots for Change. (Africa News-Article Link)
thatched roof,
Sudanese dream of returning to farmland at MOZAMBIQUE –
the heart of a decades-old dispute with 03/22/2021 : UNHCR
Ethiopia that has turned violent and describes happenings in
threatened to ignite a wider conflict. Mozambique's north as
(News Break-Article Link)
''humanitarian tragedy''
: Internally displaced persons in Mozambique
NIGERIA – 03/19/2021 have been recounting horrific stories of
: Banditry Will Not beheadings and rape. (Africa News-Article Link)
End In Nigeria Since
They’ve Politicised
Security- Wike : MALI – 03/22/2021 :
Governor Nyesom Mali's PM inaugurates
Ezenwo Wike of Rivers State has posited that new fishing port, military
the issue of banditry ravaging the nation may camp in war-torn region
not end soon if it continues to be politicized. : The town of Konna in the
(News Break-Article Link) Central region of Mali is an area regularly hit
by jihadist attacks. (Africa News-Article Link)
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