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MEDIA MONITORING
« INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENSE »
From May 17th to 24th, 2021
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AFRICA
AFRICA – 05/17/2021 : MOROCCO – 05/18/2021 :
Climate change and violence Morocco commits to stop
in Africa: no time to lose : The irregular departures into
AU is the first international body Spain- EU commissioner : It’s
to tackle the problem head-on, and it needs an unprecedented number of arrivals in Spain
global support. (ISS-Article Link) in a single day. On Tuesday, at least more
than 6,000 migrants from Morocco arrived in
TUNISIA – 05/17/2021 : the Spanish enclave of Cueta, on the north
Tunisia kills five suspected Coast of Africa. (Africa News-Article Link)
militants near Algerian
border : Tunisian security D.R. CONGO – 05/18/2021 :
forces killed five suspected militants in the DR Congo Army Says Killed
mountains near the border with Algeria on 22 Militiamen in Under-Siege
Monday, a Tunisian security official told East : The army arrested 60
Reuters. (Defence Web-Article Link) ADF collaborators including about a dozen
foreigners, mainly Ugandans.
(The Defense Post-Article Link)
AFRICA – 05/17/2021 :
Cannabis and cocaine seized
in big Niger and South Africa NIGER – 05/18/2021 : More
drug busts : Drugs with a street value of Than 10,000 Flee Jihadist
nearly 100 million euros have been seized in Attacks in Niger : The
operations in Africa and the Middle East, displaced come from four of
including two major busts that show how the 24 villages in the Anzourou area in the
traffickers are packing larger loads into their country's west. (The Defense Post-Article Link)
shipments, Interpol said on Monday.
(Defence Web-Article Link)
TUNISIA – 05/18/2021 : More
than 50 migrants drown off
ETHIOPIA – 05/17/2021 : Tunisia's coast : Tunisian
People face ‘horrific’ authorities say more than 50
situation in Ethiopia’s Tigray: migrants have drowned off the coast of the
WHO chief : Ethiopia’s conflict-hit Tigray North African country, while 33 others were
region is facing a horrifying situation with rescued by workers from an oil platform.
people dying of hunger, health services (Africa News-Article Link)
destroyed and rape “rampant”, according to
the World Health Organization chief, who is SOUTH AFRICA – 05/19/2021
from the region. (Al Jazeera-Article Link) : 8000 membres du
personnel de la SANDF
SOUTH AFRICA – 05/18/2021 : déployés pendant la
Do the police make South pandémie : Defence Minister Nosiviwe
Africa safe ? : Why we don’t Mapisa-Nqakula says the national defence
know the answer and how the police and force deployed more than 8 000 personnel to
research community can change that. the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic over
(ISS-Article Link) the past year. (Defence Web-Article Link)
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ETHIOPIA – 05/18/2021 : NIGERIA – 05/19/2021 : Anger
‘No food for days’: over slow progress, size of
Starvation stalks Tigray rewards at Nigeria’s police
as war drags on : Food brutality hearings : Ndukwe
insecurity in conflict-hit Ekekwe was furious when he heard how much
Ethiopian region remains dire, with increasing compensation a judicial panel had awarded
reports of people dying of hunger. (Al Jazeera- him after finding that members of an elite
Article Link) Nigerian police unit tortured him in custody
following a raid on his phone accessories
NIGERIA – 05/18/2021 : shop: 7.5 million naira ($18 000).
(Defence Web-Article Link)
NNS Lana arrive à la
maison : The Nigerian
Navy’s new hydrographic MOROCCO – 05/19/2021 : EU,
survey vessel NNS Lana arrived in Lagos Spain warn Morocco on
yesterday (17 May) from her four-leg maiden migrants : A steady stream of
homeward voyage. (Defence Web-Article Link) migrants tried to swim to the
Spanish enclave of Ceuta Wednesday, after a
AFRICA – 05/19/2021 : record influx of arrivals sent diplomatic
Africa must stake its tensions soaring between Madrid and Rabat.
(Africa News-Article Link)
claim in the Indo-Pacific :
East coast and island
nations cannot afford to be marginalised in the ALGERIA – 05/19/2021 :
latest redrawing of the geopolitical map. Algeria labells opposition
(ISS-Article Link) movements as terrorist
groups : Algerian authorities
TUNISIA – 05/19/2021 : on Tuesday labelled separatist group MAK
Thousands march in and an opposition movement as terrorist
support of Palestinians : organisations. (Africa News-Article Link)
Protesters gathered in
Tunisia's capital on LIBYA – 05/19/2021 : US
Wednesday to show support for Palestinians, envoy visits Libya in show
as the conflict between Israel and Hamas of support for interim govt :
militants in Gaza continues into its second Senior US State Department
week. (Africa News-Article Link) official Joey Hood held talks in Tripoli on
Tuesday in a show of support for Libya's
MOROCCO – 05/19/2021 : transitional government, and urged the
Spain police fire tear gas withdrawal of all foreign forces.
(Africa News-Article Link)
towards migrants at
Morocco border : Spanish
police shot tear gas toward IVORY COAST – 05/19/2021 :
a group of people gathering near the border 22 people convicted of child
between Morocco and Spain's enclave of trafficking on Cocoa farms :
Ceuta on Wednesday, to prevent them from Twenty-two people were sentenced to prison
crossing into the European country. terms on Tuesday for trafficking children on
(Africa News-Article Link) cocoa farms in Ivory Coast.
(Africa News-Article Link)
© 2021 The Casablanca Club, All rights reserved 3SOUTH AFRICA – 05/19/2021 BURKINA FASO –
: Defence spending cuts will 05/20/2021 : Armed men kill
affect operational ability – DA 15 at baptism in northern
: Democratic Alliance (DA) parliamentarian Burkina Faso : Unidentified
and eagle-eyed watcher of Minister Nosiviwe assailants killed 15 people who were gathered
Mapisa-Nqakula’s Department of Defence for a baptism at a village in northern Burkina
and Military Veterans (DoDMV) Kobus Marais Faso on Tuesday night, the government said
is adamant inappropriate and incorrect on Wednesday. (Defence Web-Article Link)
priorities along with a lack of operational and
political leadership are at the core of South NIGERIA – 05/20/2021 :
Africa’s declining defence capabilities. NIMASA receives Cessna
(Defence Web-Article Link)
maritime surveillance
aircraft : The Nigerian
MOROCCO – 05/19/2021 : Maritime Administration and Safety Agency
Spain steps up pressure on (NIMASA) has taken delivery of the first of two
Morocco after record Cessna Citation CJ3 maritime surveillance
migrant influx : Spain aircraft as part of its Deep Blue maritime
stepped up diplomatic pressure on Rabat security project. (Defence Web-Article Link)
Tuesday as its prime minister flew into Ceuta,
vowing to "restore order" in the North African
enclave after a record 8,000 migrants reached SOUTH AFRICA –
its beaches from Morocco. 05/20/2021 : Op Corona
(Africa News-Article Link) stops contraband, recovers
stolen vehicles and stops
illegals : Recovery of stolen livestock and
SOUTH AFRICA – vehicles, confiscation of contraband and
05/19/2021 : Soldiers apprehension of “undocumented persons”
confiscate illicit cigarettes remain the major components of the work
and wildlife on border patrol done by soldiers protecting South Africa’s
duty : South African National Defence Force land borders. (Defence Web-Article Link)
(SANDF) soldiers protecting South Africa’s
borders as part of Operation Corona
confiscated more illicit cigarettes and, MOROCCO – 05/20/2021 :
unusually, wildlife over the past weekend. Young Moroccan migrants
(Defence Web-Article Link) vow to pursue Europe even
after expulsion : Having
been expelled from Ceuta, a dozen migrants
NIGERIA – 05/19/2021 :
are still determined to flee Morocco.
Nigerian police launch (Africa News-Article Link)
operation in southeast to
quell violence it blames on
separatists : Police launched an operation on AFRICA – 05/20/2021 :
Tuesday in southeast Nigeria to put a stop to Number of IDPs in the world
rising violence and crime there, including a reaches record high of 55m :
spate of attacks on police which have Intense storms, persistent conflicts and
triggered fears of a return to war and state- explosions of violence forced 40.5 million
sanctioned violence. (Defence Web-Article Link) people to become newly displaced within their
countries last year. (Al Jazeera-Article Link)
© 2021 The Casablanca Club, All rights reserved 4CHAD – 05/20/2021 : Chadian SAHEL – 05/21/2021 : Italy
security forces clash with sends defence minister to
protesters denouncing Niger and Mali amid migrant
military takeover : Chadian security forces worries : The Italian Minister of Defense met
used tear gas and batons to disperse with government officials and Italian military
protesters who took to the streets of the personnel in Mali and Niger to discuss
capital N’Djamena on Wednesday to strengthening Italy's position in a region
denounce a military takeover following the riddled with challenges.
battlefield death of President Idriss Deby. (Africa News-Article Link)
(Defence Web-Article Link)
LIBYA – 05/21/2021 : Facing a
ALGERIA – 05/20/2021 : long and uncertain wait,
Algerian protesters face migrants work odd jobs in
crunch point as police Libya : Driven from home by desperation and
prepare crackdown : Algeria’s protest blocked from European shores, hundreds of
movement, which shook the country by stranded migrants are resigned to staying in
ousting its veteran president in 2019, faces a conflict-hit Libya, even while struggling to get
critical test for its survival on Friday, with by on odd jobs. (Africa News-Article Link)
police poised to confront any who take to the
streets. (Defence Web-Article Link) D.R. CONGO – 05/21/2021 :
Central African refugees in the
NIGERIA – 05/20/2021 : DRC living in dire conditions :
Nigeria’s Boko Haram Leader Central African refugees are living in
‘Badly Wounded’ : Sources : makeshift shelters and struggling to care for
Shekau has been reported dead several times their families in hard-to-reach areas close to
since Boko Haram first began its insurgency the border in the Democratic Republic of
in 2009. (The Defense Post-Article Link) Congo (DRC). (Africa News-Article Link)
MAURITANIA – 05/20/2021 : MOZAMBIQUE – 05/21/2021 :
Mauritanians denounce Gaza Mozambique's displaced
'massacre' as hostilities lament grim camp
continue : Thousands of people conditions : People displaced
took part in a demonstration in Nouakchott on by fighting in northern Mozambique have
Wednesday to denounce the "massacre" of spoken of the horrible conditions they have
Palestinians by Israel, an AFP reporter noted. had to endure. (Africa News-Article Link)
(Africa News-Article Link)
AFRICA – 05/21/2021 : Severe
MOROCCO – 05/20/2021 : Covid patients more likely to
Clashes as Morocco forces die in Africa than anywhere
block access to Ceuta : else : People who are seriously
Clashes erupted near ill with Covid-19 are more likely to die than if
Morocco's border with the Spanish enclave of they were in any other region in the world, the
Ceuta on Wednesday as security forces tried Lancet said in a new report released on
to disperse would-be migrants. Friday. (Africa News-Article Link)
(Africa News-Article Link)
© 2021 The Casablanca Club, All rights reserved 5SOUTH AFRICA – 05/21/2021 SENEGAL – 05/22/2021 :
: Police top brass strategy to Protesters in Dakar
curb violent crimes : With the express solidarity with
country’s high murder rate Palestinians : Some 2,000
continuing to be of concern, Police Minister protestors took part in a
Bheki Cele says provincial commissioners demonstration in Dakar, Senegal to lend
now meet on a weekly basis to account on support to the Palestines, who were battered
violent crimes. (Defence Web-Article Link) by Israel in days of bombardment.
(Africa News-Article Link)
TUNISIA – 05/21/2021 : Tunisia
and Italy to open migration D.R. CONGO – 05/23/2021 :
'hotline' : A hotline would be Lava from eruption
established between Rome and Tunis to destroys some homes in
counter irregular migration amid a spike in Goma : A river of boiling lava
arrivals at Italy's Lampedusa island, Italian came to a halt on the
Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese said this outskirts of Goma Sunday, sparing the city in
Thursday in Tunis. (Africa News-Article Link) eastern DR Congo from disaster after the
nighttime eruption of Mount Nyiragongo sent
thousands of terrified residents fleeing in
MOROCCO – 05/21/2021 : panic. (Africa News-Article Link)
Spain intensifies the
deportations of migrants
back to Morocco : On MOZAMBIQUE –
Thursday dozens of migrants, could be seen 05/24/2021 : Hundreds
queuing in front of Spain's Ceuta border continue to flee Palma
control, after having succeeded to cross the despite army assurances :
border. (Africa News-Article Link) Six weeks after it was raided by Islamic State-
linked fighters, the northern Mozambican
town of Palma remains deeply traumatised
ALGERIA – 05/21/2021 : and hundreds of its residents flee each day,
Algerian police swamp survivors and aid workers say.
capital, seeking to end (Africa News-Article Link)
weekly protests : A heavy
police presence smothered central Algiers on
Friday, aimed at blocking any resumption of a SOUTH AFRICA –
weekly protest movement that the authorities 05/24/2021 : New border
have decided they can no longer tolerate. management agency
(Defence Web-Article Link) partially operational by
year-end : The man currently
heading up one of the latest additions to South
NIGERIA – 05/21/2021 :
Africa’s bureaucracy – the Border
Nigeria’s military investigates
Management Authority (BMA) – was
reports of Boko Haram leader’s
introduced to legislators by Home Affairs
death : Nigeria’s military is investigating
Minister Aaron Motsoaledi during his budget
reports that the leader of militant Islamist
vote in Parliament last week.
group Boko Haram may have been killed or (Defence Web-Article Link)
seriously injured following clashes with rival
jihadists, an army spokesman said on Friday.
(Defence Web-Article Link)
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