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Sécheresse et jihad créent une "crise pastorale" explosive au Sahel

Au Sahel, la sécheresse chasse les troupeaux et leurs bergers vers des contrées plus accueillantes, déclenchant une "crise pastorale" qui risque d'aggraver l'insécurité alimentaire dans une région déjà fragilisée par la présence de groupes jihadistes, alertent les spécialistes.

Traditionnelles, les migrations transfrontalières de troupeaux en Afrique de l'ouest ont été cette semaine au centre d'une réunion de trois jours des membres du Réseau de prévention des crises alimentaires (RPCA), au siège de l'OCDE à Paris.

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Dans plusieurs pays, "il n'y a pas assez de fourrage, et les troupeaux sont partis plus tôt que prévu, en octobre au lieu de janvier, car ils n'avaient plus rien à manger", explique à l'AFP Maty Ba Dio, coordinatrice régionale du projet régional d'appui au pastoralisme au Sahel, basée à Ouagadougou.

"La difficulté, c'est qu'ils sont arrivés alors que les populations agricoles du sud n'avaient pas complètement fini les récoltes, les animaux ont envahi et détruit les parcelles de culture (...), cela a créé des conflits énormes", regrette-t-elle. Les investissements en semences et engrais ont été anéantis.

Dans les pays côtiers qui reçoivent les migrations de troupeaux, "comme le Nigeria, le Ghana, ou le Togo", les conflits "ont abouti à des morts d'hommes, avec des images difficiles à regarder", souligne aussi Mme Ba Dio.

Dans le nord-est du Nigeria, plusieurs régions connaissent depuis le début de l'année une multiplication des affrontements entre éleveurs nomades et paysans sédentaires pour l'accès à la terre, l'eau et les pâturages, provoquant des centaines de morts et obligeant le gouvernement à déployer l'armée dans plusieurs Etats du pays.

Les rivalités séculaires éleveurs-agriculteurs sont avivées par la désertification en cours. Mais l'inquiétude des 150 responsables ouest-africains, dont plusieurs ministres de l'Agriculture ou de l'Elevage, des institutions régionales africaines et des organisations internationales (Onu, UE, Banque Mondiale, agences de développement, ONG...) participant à la réunion de Paris est d'autant plus grande que les déplacements de troupeaux sont aussi freinés par une montée des violences armées au Sahel.


"Les troupeaux venant du Niger ou du Tchad ne peuvent plus gagner leurs zones de refuge traditionnelles autour du lac Tchad en raison de l'insécurité totale qui y règne", note madame Ba Dio.

"On ne peut plus aller dans beaucoup de zones pastorales, où il y avait du fourrage pour les animaux, à cause du jihadisme", car "le banditisme s'y est installé", résume pour l'AFP Djibo Bagna, président du réseau des organisations paysannes et de producteurs de l'Afrique de l'ouest (ROPPA).

Idem pour la région du Liptako-Gourma, un vaste rectangle à cheval sur le Mali, le Burkina Faso et le Niger.


Située sur le bassin du fleuve Niger, c'est une zone de transhumance des troupeaux. C'est aussi exactement la région où l'ONU discernait en mars, dans un rapport, des "menaces terroristes croissantes de l'Etat islamique dans le Grand Sahara (ISGS) et de Ansar al-Islam".

"Les bandes organisées et la circulation d'armes légères ont empiré la situation, on en vient dans les pays du sud, agricoles, à montrer du doigt les éleveurs pasteurs, qui viennent du nord", se désole Ibra Touré, géographe au Comité permanent inter-Etats de lutte contre la sécheresse au Sahel (CILSS).

- "Sévère détérioration" -


Au Nigeria, la crise est aussi amplifiée par certains médias accusés de donner une dimension ethnique et religieuse à un conflit pourtant séculaire entre éleveurs nomades, souvent musulmans, et agriculteurs, chrétiens.

Une réunion de haut niveau sur le sujet est prévue le 28 avril à Abuja avec les ministres de l'Elevage de 15 pays de la Communauté économique des Etats de l'Afrique de l'ouest, ainsi que ceux de la Mauritanie et du Tchad, a annoncé à Paris Sekou Sangaré, le Commissaire à l'Agriculture de la CEDEAO.

Une solution doit être trouvée rapidement. La situation alimentaire des pays du Sahel, déjà mauvaise, est en "sévère détérioration", a prévenu le RPCA, qui assure une veille de la production agricole en Afrique de l'ouest.

Il craint de voir le nombre de personnes en besoin d'assistance alimentaire dans la région gonfler à 10,6 millions d'ici l'été, au lieu de 7,1 millions actuellement.

Les récoltes céréalières ont légèrement progressé, à près de 68 millions de tonnes, mais des baisses sensibles sont enregistrées en Gambie (-29%), au Burkina Faso (-11%), en Guinée Bissau (-7%), et au Tchad (-5%). Et les prix des céréales et tubercules locales restent plus élevés que la moyenne des cinq dernières années. La production de fourrages a aussi baissé de 95% en Mauritanie par rapport à la moyenne des cinq dernières années, et de 80% au Sénégal.
https://www.voaafrique.com/a/secheresse ... 55760.html

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The Afghanization of the Sahel: part II section 1

We leave them in their “shit whole countries”, and pursue “war on terror”.

For Africa the same strategy will be applied as in Afghanistan. Recently Mr. Waldhauser (senior commander of AFRICOM) stated “we cannot compete with the Chinese when it comes to infrastructure” and “our mission is to train and help combatting terrorism”. In other words our mandate and resources are not to improve lives and tackle the sources of terrorism, but rather that to use our drones and commando groups to kill the population, which revert to terrorism/uprising.
The dysfunctional misconception “war on terror”, did not work anywhere in the world and there is no reason to belief that it will work in the Sahel!
If the concern is to improve security and reduce terrorism, one should go to the sources why there is terrorism in the first place.
  • 1) Nations such as China, Russia and most Arabic ones, see US-actions/policies close or within their borders as unilateral and egoistic.
    US-actions/policies are perceived as disregarding their values, culture, and traditions/history and depriving them of their rightful earning/resources as well as freedoms or human rights in some cases.
    This overpowerment can be felt by the arab/muslim/black/3rd world people on the ground (in some cases daily), due to the ambiguous and shortsighted policies of economic advantages and devaluation for other cultures by evangelical/zionistic ideology. It results in the profound feeling as being treated second class human, unjust&unfair.

Part of (post) colonial symptoms early last century in the Arab world was the proliferation of Wahhabi and Muslim-brotherhood ideologies. Those were even more catalyzed by US/Western driven Middle Eastern policies (economical gains/ evangelical/Zionistic ideology) in the 50 to the 80ies.
This reverting to the religion, spiritual and traditional values was the path to resist continued oppression and humiliation du to US/Western driven Middle Eastern policies (economical gains/ evangelical/Zionistic ideology). It was the basis for the later precipitating ideology of Salafism (popular ideology of the 90ies), which even stronger rejects the West. Salafism was then basis for taqfiri and Jihadist such AQMI or ISIS.
A quite unpopular view in US, however one need to be so truthful and self aware; and take the “we are great”-glasses off. There is in any HR-process evaluation process a 360-degree review. I wonder why senior US officials are not able to undergo that process too, and grasp the other side of the medal.
  • 2) Based on my personal interaction with Touarek elders but also Touarek youth, the following precipitated. There is a great sense of rejection and intolerance they feel from the manly dominated “black-African” dominated government. They said that in 50 years they (the Malian government) did not do anything for us, on the contrary they consider us not even part of their country since our background is different. However the Tenere (a region in the Sahara) is our home, and we should govern it, rather being governed by them.
  • 3) The lack of educational and professional opportunities is overwhelming in the region, in particular for the youth:
    “How do you expect us to go by the rules, either you rob, search for “illegal” gold or do other “illegal” activities such as trafficking. There is no other way to make a living; to get married. The government did nothing for us! ” by a young Touarek.
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The Afghanization of the Sahel: part II section 2

From a broader perspective the US-strategy “war on terror” failed.

From a broader perspective the US-strategy “war on terror” failed, since a comprehensive development was never part the agenda in any country they were engaged in:
• In Iraq they failed to protect the Sunnis and Christian from the Shia majority. The country is still in ruins with major unrest and divided.
• In Afghanistan, no words can grasp the disaster…
• In Syria it is already clear based on Trumps recent statement that “nation building” even on the regions which they occupy with their allies in not on the agenda. No resources should be dedicated to that. America first!

The people have an urgent need for schools on the ground to teach their children and infrastructure

In Mali/Niger the conflict between Touarek and the central government is old. Rebellion over rebellion and still the source of the conflict is not tackled by any western nation.
Western concern is either immigration-control (EU) or fight global terrorism (US). No time to look a little closer. Politicians want short term results (stopping influx of migrants for the EU and for the US combating at the moment meaningless Jihadi groups which might at one point in the far future become dangerous for them).
The Touarek are friendly people and they just want to live in dignity with an economical future for their children. Very reasonable aims and meeting those aspirations will be the decisive factor for US/Western success to meet their aims. To narrow the situation down as it is currently done to a conflict between Jihadist and the West is simply not fact based and uneducated. It is a socio/economical conflict.

The lack of development of infrastructure is astonishing.

All locals complain about it and the more isolated the villages of the Touarek are, the greater the lack and the more the vulnerability of the people to support Jihadi groups.
  • 4) “I can tell from my own experience that the difference is so astonishing coming from Algeria (Ain Guzzeem), where the boarder outpost has a brand new road, concrete walls, electricity, offices, vehicles and enter the village on the Niger border side (Azzamaka).
    Nothing, nothing there just a lack of development like you would expect people living still 200 years ago.
    Only mud-huts, no roads, no green, no electricity, cooking only with wood, many… maybe too many young female children.
    The only vehicle which I can across was a series of heavily armed Toyota stations which 12mm machine guns and a gunner who looked aggressive, battle hardened with empty eyes.
    That is a symptomatic description of the situation of the isolated northern regions in Niger. Even at the time, access to Arlit was limited and people had to drive in convoys” my personal experience.
For the beginning rather than building a 110 Million drone base in Agadez nobody needs, one could ask what would look the situation on the ground if 110 schools were build and sustained for teen years with those funds. What would look the security effect look like on the ground? Communities who benefit from such a program would much more resist bonding to Jihadi groups and even support security forces rather than seeing them as occupiers.

Cleary the western presence on the ground itself, is viewed as a security threat and humiliation

"We are afraid of falling back into the same situation as in Afghanistan, with many mistakes made by American soldiers who did not always know the difference between a wedding ceremony and a training of terrorist groups," said Amadou Roufai, a Nigerien administration official.
Civic leader Nouhou Mahamadou also expressed concerns. "The presence of foreign bases in general and American in particular is a serious surrender of our sovereignty and a serious attack on the morale of the Nigerien military," he said.
https://www.nigerdiaspora.net/index.php ... republique
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/0 ... -base.html
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The Afghanization of the Sahel: part II section 3

Taken together the current strategy in the Sahel will most likely result in an Afghanistization of the region.

Security will deteriorate more and more and jihadist will pilgrimage to the Sahel to combat US. The failure to focus on social/economic development will result in an outraged and rebellious Touarek population, resulting in an endless war with a possible overthrow of another government. I am pleased that journalists see the next conflict hotspot and use the wording “Afghanistan of the Sahel”. Maybe that will deter some decision makers; prior more body bags will be sent “home” from a place where the US have traditionally nothing to do with.

What you don’t what others to do to you, do not do to them!

The guess the question needs to be posed: What would the US do when it comes to (more) homegrown white terrorism? Would drones fly over parts of the US to kill in the Middle West, such as Kansas, Kentucky, and Texas etc. in order to peruse radical white groups who conduct hate-crimes? Who would decide about the killing, a black and Muslim official? Think about what you do to others and if you would allow others do the same to you! We teach that to our children, somehow people grow older and forget about those basics. There is a need for more articles which dissect the causes of conflicts in the region but overall of “war on terror” and show better and more the wrongdoings. I invite everybody to participate….
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Ethique et déontologie militaire en contexte sécuritaire tendue : Le Ministre de la Défense Nationale Kalla Moutari rappelle les contrevenants à l’ordre
20 AVRIL 2018 PUBLIÉ DANS POLITIQUE

Kalla Moutari Ethique deontologie militaireL’utilisation des réseaux sociaux est, ces derniers temps, au centre des préoccupations des pouvoirs publics. Pour les effets négatifs qu’ils peuvent avoir sur la gestion de la cité. Au ministère de la Défense Nationale, le patron des lieux, Kalla Moutari, veille au grain

Dans une lettre circulaire en date du 13 avril 2018, le Ministre de la Défense Nationale, Kalla Moutari instruit les deux premiers responsables militaires, à savoir le Chef d’Etat-Major Général des Armées et le Haut-Commandant de la Gendarmerie Nationale à sensibiliser davantage, chacun en ce qui le concerne, les services et les éléments relevant de ses compétences sur le respect de l’éthique et de la déontologie militaire. Ce rappel, découle, selon le Ministre Kalla, des informations en sa possession, relatives à des manquements graves dans la gestion des informations militaires. Il écrit : « Depuis un certain temps, il m’a été donné de constater à travers vos comptes rendus quotidiens, que certains militaires et gendarmes, au mépris des lois et règlement en vigueur, se permettent de divulguer des informations militaires non rendues publiques à des personnes non qualifiées vie les réseaux sociaux (Internet, Facebook Whattsap, Tweeter, etc. Au regard du contexte actuel caractérisé par les défis sécuritaires, l’éthique et la déontologie militaire imposent le respect strict de certaines règles de comportement en tout lieu et en toute circonstance ». Aussi, tout en rappelant les dispositions légales en vigueur, demande-t-il à la hiérarchie militaire d’attirer l’attention des services et éléments des différents corps de l’armée des sanctions disciplinaires, statutaires et pénales qu’encourent les contrevenants au respect de l’éthique et de la déontologie militaire.

Au sein de l’opinion, cette lettre circulaire du Ministre de la Défense Nationale est bien accueillie en ce qu’elle permettra de protéger le Secret Défense dans un contexte sécuritaire très tendue. « L’armée peut avoir perdu des batailles et d’éléments dans son noble combat contre l’ennemi terroriste parce que des informations confidentielles, secrètes et d’une grande utilité sont tombées entre les mains de l’ennemi » ; Dixit un observateur.

L’armée nigérienne, citée parmi les plus vaillantes de l’Afrique, de plus en plus renforcée en puissance de feu, est engagée depuis quelques années sur plusieurs fronts, aux frontières ouest, nord et sud-est contre des groupes terroristes très mobiles, organisés et bien armés. Si elle arrive vaillamment à défendre le territoire national et à sécuriser les populations et leurs biens sur l’étendue du pays, elle a malheureusement payé un lourd tribut du fait parfois de certaines légèretés liées souvent à la non-protection du Secret Défense.

Oumarou Kané

20 avril 2018
Source : La Nation
https://www.nigerdiaspora.net/index.php ... -a-l-ordre

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here an algerian fellow who actually should get all credit for> "Afghanization of Sahel", already in 2012. Chapeau.
Disaster in the Sahel
Fighting in Mali Adds Chaos to Troubled African Region
The military coup and ensuing fighting in Mali has resulted in the deterioration of an already bad situation in Africa's Sahel region. Islamist extremists have gained the upper hand in northern Mali and now control Timbuktu. Al-Qaida and other militant groups now have free reign across vast swaths of Africa.

By Horand Knaup
Photo Gallery: Chaos in the SahelPhotos
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Armored vehicles rumbled through the deserted streets of Bamako, Mali, last week, while the rattle of fire from assault rifles could be heard coming from the western part of the capital, especially around the presidential guard's barracks and in the city's slums.

It was the most recent battle between troops loyal to Mali's former government and those who seized power in a March coup. Acting Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra decried this "attempt to destabilize our country" and the "foreign elements" and "dark powers" he says are pulling the strings in the rebellion.

Heads of state from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met last week for an emergency summit, as Mali, long considered a model of democracy in the region, descended into chaos. Two thirds of this desert country are out of government control, and even in Bamako, coup leaders are only keeping their grip with great effort.

Mali is not the only country where tensions are boiling over; the situation is much the same in many parts of the region. Tuareg rebels have declared their own state, Azawad, in the northern part of Mali, which has also been invaded by Ansar Dine, an Islamist group that works closely with an organization known as al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Entire swaths of land are ruled by gangs who make millions by taking hostages and smuggling drugs and weapons. It's often difficult to tell here exactly who are Tuaregs, who are terrorists or who are merely gangsters.

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Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia has called the situation "very, very worrying." Mhand Berkouk, director of the Echaab Center for Strategic Studies, in Algiers, fears an "Afghanization of the entire Sahel region." Berkouk believes Azawad could become a base for terrorists from around the world.

Ungovernable

That same fear drove the Malian soldiers who carried out the March 21 coup against the country's president of many years, Amadou Touré. The soldiers, led by Captain Amadou Sanogo, rebelled in the hope of improving their desperate situation in the fight against the Tuareg, accusing President Touré of "incompetence in the fight against Islamic terror."

Thus far, however, coup leaders have achieved precisely the opposite of what they had hoped. Just days after Touré was ousted, Tuareg and Ansar Dine fighters rolled into Gao and Timbuktu, black Islamist flags flying from their all-terrain vehicles, and now control those cities completely. Overnight, the withdrawal of government authority in Mali has rendered ungovernable an area four times the size of France, spread across the Sahara Desert and the Sahel zone. Islamist groups now move nearly unchallenged across a territory that stretches from Tindouf in western Algeria to the border between Libya and Chad in the east, and into the northern part of Nigeria to the south.

These groups move weapons and drugs, take hostages and plan attacks. In February 2011, they attempted to bomb Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz out of their way with over a ton of explosives. They kidnapped two Canadians in Niger and also tried to abduct a German diplomat in Nouakchott, Mauritania.

At the moment, it's impossible to say how the new state of Azawad plans to assert itself, or who exactly will rule there: the al-Qaida supporters, who immediately declared Sharia law to be the legal basis for the state of Azawad? Or the secular Tuareg, who have gathered under the banner of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA)? And what of the splinter group known as the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), which specializes in kidnappings and is currently holding at least 10 hostages?

The chaos in the northern part of the country, the rebels' advance, the ousting of President Touré -- none of this came as a great surprise to Western diplomats and intelligence services. US embassy documents released by Wikileaks in the fall of 2010 revealed just what a hopeless battle Mali's army was fighting within its own country.

Two Pick-Ups and a Minivan

In these documents, American diplomats described an attack by al-Qaida fighters against Malian soldiers on July 4, 2009, which turned into a debacle for the army. Six days after the deadly ambush of Malian military forces by fighters from al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), there remains uncertainty concerning the exact number of soldiers involved and casualties sustained by government forces," the Americans reported. Having suffered its greatest casualties since 1991, the Malian military suspended patrols in the area of the battle, temporarily withdrawing its forces to the relative safety of Timbuktu." The enemy was far better equipped and more mobile, the diplomats added.

Soon after, American soldiers visited a military base in northeastern Mali and found "a woeful shortage of basic supplies and logistical support." Around half of the base's soldiers were deployed to fight al-Qaida, the Americans reported, and the remaining half had just "three operational vehicles, including two pick-up trucks and one minivan," while the soldiers' weapons dated "from the 1960s."

The US military sent money and supplies, as well as an elite group of US Army soldiers from Colorado, who spent five weeks training the members of a Malian special forces unit. While there, the American soldiers learned something astonishing: "When the survivors of the July 4 ambush were asked why they had left behind so many vehicles to be captured by AQIM, they said the drivers had been killed and no one else in the unit knew how to drive. When asked why they had not used a heavy machine gun, they answered that the gunner who knew how to operate the weapon had also been killed, and he was the only one who knew what to do."

The Americans' intervention has failed to reverse the course of this disaster in the sand. Morale among the Malian soldiers is wretched, and the Tuareg fighters now have heavy weaponry they were able to obtain during the turmoil of the Libyan civil war last year. This includes missile launchers, armored vehicles and, it is said, anti-aircraft missiles as well.

'Down with Democracy!'

A military defeat in Mali is not the only failure at hand. There is far more at stake. What began in North Africa in late 2010 as the Arab Spring, spurred on by a great deal of support in the West, has created new extremes in many parts of the Muslim world.

In the Sahara especially, the calls for democracy and freedom, and the demands for the people to have a voice in decision-making, have met with resistance. Fundamentalists here have begun to reorganize. They're fighting for influence in southern Libya, and in March, a suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a police station in Tamanrasset in southern Algeria, a city that had long been peaceful. Soon after, fundamentalist women took to the streets in Nouakchott, Mauritania, for the first time in that country's history. But the women weren't marching for equality. "Down with democracy!" they chanted. "Introduce Sharia!"

NATO saved Benghazi, Libya, but in exchange lost Timbuktu, Mali, says Gregory Mann, a history professor at Columbia University in New York who is a specialist in the Sahel region.

The government's weakness is one reason for the instability in the region, UN analysts say, and new, profitable lines of business here are another: Where cigarette smugglers once slipped through the desert, now they funnel 50 to 60 metric tons of cocaine, valued at up to $10 billion (€8 billion), through the Sahara each year, bound for Europe.

In one known example, a Boeing 727 landed on a makeshift runway in the middle of the desert north of Gao in November 2009, and mere minutes later, helpers started unloading several tons of cocaine into waiting 4x4 vehicles. They then set fire to the airplane, which had taken off in Venezuela before suddenly disappearing from radar screens.

Impossible to Pinpoint

Kidnapping is the other lucrative trade plied by al-Qaida terrorists and extremists in the region. Currently, a dozen Western hostages and 7 Algerian hostages are being held. These gangs are believed to have taken in over €100 million in ransom so far, and MUJAO kidnappers are now demanding €30 million for the return of one Spanish and one Italian hostage. The kidnappers are familiar with the territory and highly mobile, capable of moving their hostages 1,000 or 2,000 kilometers at a time, at night if necessary. They get their bearings from rocks and dunes, keeping their satellite phones switched off and making it impossible to pinpoint the location of such convoys.

A German civil engineer is also presumed held by al-Qaida, after being abducted from Kano, Nigeria, in late January. Not until late March did his family receive proof that he was alive -- a video in which the exhausted prisoner begged the German government to save his life.

Most of these hostages are believed to be held in the area around Taoudenni, located in Mali's far north near the borders with Mauritania and Algeria. There are few water sources in this rocky desert region, and temperatures can reach 50 degrees Celsius (120 degrees Fahrenheit) in the shade.

ECOWAS leaders now want to send troops into this Tuareg region, but it would be a suicide mission, with the opponents holding too great an advantage. They know the desert better than almost anyone, and likely possess better weaponry as well. Gregory Mann, the West African history professor, is skeptical about whether it will be possible to save the region. "It will be a long road back -- for the North, for all of Mali, but also for the idea of representative and inclusive government," he says.
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This issue brief provides a view from the Sahel on the current threats to peace and
security in the region. As part of its project on peace and security in the SahelSahara
region, IPI’s Africa Program has partnered with the Mauritania-based
think tank, the Centre for Strategies for Security in the Sahel Sahara Region. The
Centre 4S was established in June 2011 to help countries in the Sahel take the lead
in transforming the region’s daunting security and development challenges into
opportunities.Originally written in French, this June 2012 research paper from
the Centre 4S examines the principal threats to peace and security in the Sahel
and their impact on development. It then offers proposals and recommendations
for surmounting the current conflicts before presenting possible future scenarios
for the region
https://www.ipinst.org/wp-content/uploa ... _sahel.pdf
Very well explained paper I found here, particular on the background.
(too big to post all that)
Clearly and educated man spend some time and came up with some conclusions.
Some aspects I see different, but I guess that is normal. Very well done, you have my appreciation

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I did count 4 hangars....they state 3. We will see.

Building a base from nothing’: $110 million U.S. project in Niger will house drones

Airmen work in the unmanned aerial device apron in Agadez, Niger, where drones will be parked when they are not in operation.

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By JOHN VANDIVER | STARS AND STRIPES
Published: April 24, 2018

AGADEZ, Niger — There’s no sign yet of a Green Beans Coffee shop, a staple at some of the military’s austere semipermanent bases around the world that troops have come to know. But give it time.

The U.S. Air Force is nearing completion of a $110 million project in the Saharan desert town of Agadez, Niger, known as Air Base 201. And even the locals seem to think the Americans are going to be around for some time to come.

“They will call this the U.S. air base. They want us to feel at home here,” said Lt. Col. Brad Harbaugh, commander of the 724th Expeditionary Air Base Squadron. “I remind them it’s Nigerien.”

The construction effort amounts to the largest Air Force project in history, a fact that has more to do with the service’s history of contracting out major construction than the size of the site in Niger.

Technically, the base — about a mile from the city’s small airport — is Nigerien, but the U.S. has exclusive rights to about 20 percent of the compound’s largely barren 9-mile perimeter, military officials said.


For now, the base in Agadez, Niger, is deemed expeditionary, which means U.S. troops stationed there will be living in tents rather than more permanent buildings.
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“We’re building a base from nothing, from scratch,” Harbaugh said. “This was all historically nomadic land.”

The base was slated to open late last year, but completion has been pushed back to the end of 2018 because of the difficulties of operating in the austere southern Sahara.

Work crews must keep newly poured concrete damp during the day so the slates don’t crack in the afternoon heat.

“The guys are working around the clock right now to get it done,” said Capt. Tim Lord, who helps oversee construction.

Three unmanned aerial vehicle aprons are being set up, where drones will park. Niger’s government granted the U.S. authority to carry out armed drone flights shortly after an October ambush that left four U.S. soldiers dead.
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Niger – ‘Building a base from nothing’: $110 million U.S. project in Niger will house drones
2018/04/24 – There’s no sign yet of a Green Beans Coffee shop, a staple at some of the military’s austere semipermanent bases around the world that troops have come to know. But give it time.

The U.S. Air Force is nearing completion of a $110 million project in the Saharan desert town of Agadez, Niger, known as Air Base 201. And even the locals seem to think the Americans are going to be around for some time to come.

“They will call this the U.S. air base. They want us to feel at home here,” said Lt. Col. Brad Harbaugh, commander of the 724th Expeditionary Air Base Squadron. “I remind them it’s Nigerien.”

The construction effort amounts to the largest Air Force project in history, a fact that has more to do with the service’s history of contracting out major construction than the size of the site in Niger.

Technically, the base — about a mile from the city’s small airport — is Nigerien, but the U.S. has exclusive rights to about 20 percent of the compound’s largely barren 9-mile perimeter, military officials said.

“We’re building a base from nothing, from scratch,” Harbaugh said. “This was all historically nomadic land.”

The base was slated to open late last year, but completion has been pushed back to the end of 2018 because of the difficulties of operating in the austere southern Sahara.

Work crews must keep newly poured concrete damp during the day so the slates don’t crack in the afternoon heat.

“The guys are working around the clock right now to get it done,” said Capt. Tim Lord, who helps oversee construction.

Three unmanned aerial vehicle aprons are being set up, where drones will park. Niger’s government granted the U.S. authority to carry out armed drone flights shortly after an October ambush that left four U.S. soldiers dead.

Military officials declined to say how many drones would be based at the site.

About 700 military personnel are involved in the project. About 600 airmen are expected to be deployed to the site on six-month tours once construction is finished later this year.

The campaign also has given a jolt to the local economy. The U.S. has spent about $10 million on asphalt and $7 million on rock that gets crushed to rubble. Locals work jobs at the base dining facility.

A security team monitors the base’s fence line around-the-clock and conducts joint base patrols with Nigerien forces.

The base’s strategic location and cost make it unlikely that the U.S. is in Niger for the short term.

Basewide wireless access has boosted the airmen’s quality of life; however, there are no immediate plans to begin adding fast food and buildings that often come with a more permanent designation.


“This is to be an expeditionary base,” Harbaugh said.

Source: Stripes/Photo: Airmen work in the unmanned aerial device apron in Agadez, Niger, where drones will be parked when they are not in operation. JOHN VANDIVER/STARS AND STRIPES
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come on guys...."potential threats in 20 years time"..."accepted views in Washington"..."political advantage"...
but the best is: “Any time you can go there and improve someone’s quality of life and security situation, it is worth it"
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Special operators say African terror groups a future threat to US, if not right now
2018/04/24 – The runway under construction here, stretching more than a mile in the southern Sahara Desert, is both the Air Force’s biggest building project ever and the newest sign of a growing American military campaign against extremists in West Africa.

At Air Base 201, U.S. airmen put down damp burlap sacks to keep fresh concrete from cracking under the blaze, while building a home for MQ-9 Reaper drones.

The U.S. is bolstering air operations at a time when the costs of its Africa strategy have grown clearer: five American servicemembers were killed in combat operations during the past year in Africa, the first such deaths in a generation.

It raises the question: Does the threat posed by any extremist group in Africa justify U.S. forces being thrust into harm’s way?

As the Pentagon has dedicated more resources to counterterrorism efforts in Africa, there are conflicting views among security analysts about the broader threat and whether it’s as significant as the U.S. military sees it.

“I think we can be smarter about what we are doing and doubling down on a military investment isn’t really a smart long-term strategy,” said Steven Feldstein, a former State Department official for Africa and analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “Is $100 million for a drone base in Agadez the smartest way to approach the issue?”

U.S. military leaders acknowledge that none of the major extremist groups — Al-Shabab in Somalia and a mix of Islamic State and al-Qaida affiliates elsewhere — constitute a major threat to the U.S. today. But commanders argue that they could if their activities go unchecked.

“If there isn’t something done to assist the countries across the Sahel region, it is going to become a very real threat,” said Col. Brad Moses, commander of the 3rd Special Operations Group, which handles missions in 11 West African countries. “Twenty years from now they will be an existential threat if we don’t assist our partner forces now.”

The rationale for the military’s expanding mission in places like Somalia and Niger and a $110 million base in Agadez — that a threat to the homeland looms in the not-so-distant future — has generally been accepted in Washington.

Terrorism’s ebb and flow
Moses’ assessment echoes what top military leaders have been saying since U.S. Africa Command was launched a decade ago. Gen. William E. Ward, who stood AFRICOM up in 2007, to Gen. Thomas Waldhauser today, all have said the same thing — that extremists on the African continent aspire to attack America. When four soldiers were killed in an October ambush in Niger, lawmakers were surprised by the risk troops face, but not necessarily the underlying logic that drives the missions.

The data gives a mixed picture about how terrorism is evolving in Africa.

In 2017, there was a nearly 50 percent decline in fatalities, with 10,376 deaths caused by Islamic militant groups in Africa compared with 18,728 in 2015, according to the U.S. government-affiliated African Center for Strategic Studies.

Much of the drop-off is attributed to few attacks by the Nigeria-based Boko Haram group, which a few years ago was the most lethal of all African terrorist groups. Boko Haram has expressed little interest and demonstrated no capability in operating outside the region.

However, Al-Qaida aligned groups have proved resilient in West Africa. They caused 391 deaths last year, nearly double 2016’s fatalities, according to ACSS. The increase is blamed on the emergence of a new jihadi umbrella group known as Jama’at Nusrat al Islam wal Muslimin, or JNIM.

In March, al-Qaida claimed responsibility for an attack on an Army base in Burkina Faso and the French embassy there, which caught the attention of U.S. Special Operations Command Africa boss Maj. Gen. Marcus Hicks. The attacks marked a shift from mainly civilian-populated areas to hard targets.

“They (al-Qaida linked groups) have been building capability and capacity since 2012,” Hicks said during a recent stop in Niger to observe his command’s Flintlock exercise, the largest special operations war game on the Continent.

For Hicks, the military’s investment now in places like Niger equals preventive medicine.

“This is exactly the time and exactly the place to address these threats,” Hicks said in an interview. “If we don’t deal with it here at a cost that is affordable, we will end up dealing with it somewhere else at a much higher cost.”

The risk of not acting
Feldstein says more skepticism is needed when considering aspirational rhetoric from extremists and what they are actually capable of achieving. But to argue against the idea that the militant groups in Africa could evolve into the al-Qaida of Osama Bin Laden is to take on risk.

“If you are the person who basically says I don’t think this threat is that serious and something happens, no matter how small, that can be used against you,” Feldstein said. “It is always to your political advantage to be very serious about threats.”

In Africa, the costs have been high for U.S. special operations forces. In May, SEAL Senior Chief Petty Officer Kyle Milliken was killed in combat in Somalia.

In Niger, Staff Sgt. Bryan C. Black and Staff Sgt. Dustin M. Wright of the 3rd Special Forces Group were killed in the October ambush along with attached soldiers Staff Sgt. Jeremiah W. Johnson and Sgt. La David T. Johnson.

“It’s a complex environment just like any other place we work in,” said Capt. Neal, a Green Beret with the 3rd Special Forces Group who recently advised Nigerien troops during the Flintlock exercise.

Neal, whose last name was withheld for security reasons, declined to comment on the ambush in Niger. But when asked whether it was worth taking on risks in countries like Niger where the threats to the U.S. are vague, he said it was.

Any time you can go there and improve someone’s quality of life and security situation, it is worth it,” he said.

Source: Stripes/Photo:Troops patrol the perimeter of a Nigerien air base in Agadez, part of which is under the exclusive control of U.S. forces. The site will be a hub for American surveillance operations in the region.JOHN VANDIVER/STARS AND STRIPES

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Issoufou under fire |
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5 days ago - 'It would be easier to name the countries that don't have troops in Niger,' one diplomat told Africa Confidential. The Italians were meant to join French troops at a base in Madama, just south of Niger's border with Libya. France has been blamed for holding up the Italians and undermining a secret deal between Niamey and ...
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Issoufou under fire 20TH APRIL 2018

Steep new taxes, a crackdown on the informal economy and an agreement with the EU spur mass protests
This year's national budget may have been hailed as 'courageous' by the European Union's top official in Niamey, but it was received with markedly less enthusiasm by most Nigeriens. A raft of taxes, including VAT on staples including rice and sugar, as well as utilities such as electricity and water, has sparked protests on a scale not seen since 2005. At the same time, a new inheritance tax has offended some Islamic groups in this Muslim-majority country.

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Encore plus de instability...malgre la presence de touts ces soldats etranger au Niger.
Leur president sert a quoi?
Huit (8) personnes tuées par des bandits armés dans trois villages de la Région de Tillabéry (Presse)
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Niamey, 25 Avril (ANP)- Huit (8) personnes ont été tuées par des bandits armés dans les villages de Tanfadara, Rounfou et Margou, dans le Département de Filingué, Région de Tillabéry.
L’information été révélée par le quotidien gouvernemental ‘’ Le SAHEL’’ dans sa livraison de ce mercredi, 25 Avril 2018.
‘’Dans la matinée du 16 Avril 2018, aux environs de 8H30, rapporte le journal, ‘’ deux bandits armés non identifiés venus à moto, ont abattu un commerçant du village de Rounfou. Par la suite, les populations des villages environnants se sont organisées pour suivre les traces de la moto en attendant l’arrivée des Forces de Défense et de Sécurité(FDS). Hélas, à quelques kilomètres du village de Margou, les bandits ont tendu une embuscade aux jeunes lancés à leur poursuite. Ainsi, ils ont abattu 7 jeunes, brulé leurs motos et emporté leurs biens’’.
Le Ministre en charge de l’Intérieur et de la Sécurité Publique, Mohamed Bazoum est allé mardi dans ces villages pour transmettre le message de compassion et de condoléances du Président de la République aux familles endeuillées, indique la même source.
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Y aurait-il des enjeux géostratégiques derrière la visite du chef de l’AFRICOM à Alger? © AP Photo / Christoph Schmidt/dpa
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Le commandant de l’AFRICOM, le général américain Thomas Waldhauser, est en visite depuis mercredi à Alger pour discuter «des opportunités de coopération en matière de sécurité et de lutte contre le terrorisme» dans la région. Cependant, y aurait-il des enjeux inavoués dans cette visite? Analyse.

Le général Thomas Waldhauser, chef du Commandement des États-Unis pour l'Afrique (AFRICOM), est en visite depuis mercredi en Algérie. Il s'est déjà entretenu avec le Premier ministre du pays, Ahmed Ouyahia, le ministre des Affaires étrangères, Abdelkader Messahel, et le vice-ministre de la Défense nationale, le chef d'état-major de l'Armée nationale populaire (ANP), le général de corps d'armée Ahmed Gaïd Salah.

«Nous sommes impatients d'explorer les futures activités de coopération en matière de sécurité avec l'Algérie», a déclaré Thomas Waldhauser à l'issue de sa réunion avec Abdelkader Messahel, selon l'Algérie Presse Service (APS).

SONATRACH
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L’Algérie peut-elle être «la meilleure alternative» énergétique de l’Europe?
«Nos nations travaillent ensemble en qualité de partenaires égaux pour construire un avenir meilleur, pas seulement en Algérie, mais partout en Afrique du Nord», a ajouté le responsable américain en affirmant que «grâce à un partenariat solide, nos pays sont mieux capables de combattre les causes profondes du terrorisme et de promouvoir la paix et la stabilité», selon l'APS.
À en croire le général américain, la visite a pour but de trouver des opportunités de coopération sécuritaire, en particulier dans la région du Sahel. Cependant, à examiner le contexte dans lequel intervient cette rencontre du commandant de l'AFRICOM avec les responsables algériens, il serait aisé d'identifier certains enjeux géopolitiques et géostratégiques qui auraient motivé cette visite.

La situation au Sahel et en Libye, lieux d'entente ou dediscorde entre les deux pays?

Ahmed Gaid Salah, chef d'État-major de l'armée algérienne
CC BY-SA 4.0 / LAMRAOUI.LAMIN / AHMED GAID SALAH WITH THE ARMY
Les projets de l’Armée algérienne quant à l’intervention au Sahel
Si la situation sécuritaire s'est tant dégradée dans la région du Sahel, c'est avant tout à cause de la guerre que les États-Unis, la France et le Royaume-Uni ont mené, sous l'égide de l'Otan, contre la Libye. Le démantèlement de l'État libyen a eu pour conséquence le déferlement d'armes et de groupes terroristes dans toute la bande saharo-sahélienne.
La diplomatie algérienne n'a ménagé aucun effort pour alerter, les puissances initiatrices de l'intervention militaire en Libye, des graves conséquences que celle-ci aurait sur la paix et la sécurité dans toute la région. «Nos craintes se sont hélas vite confirmées et bien au-delà de ce que nous pouvions imaginer, lorsque, fuyant les bombardements, des groupes armés étrangers appartenant aux milices pro-colonel Kadhafi déferlèrent en nombre, sans être inquiétées, sur le nord du Mali à travers le Niger pour y proclamer l'indépendance de l'Azawad alors que l'encre du paraphe à un nouvel accord avec Bamako, facilité par l'Algérie, n'avait pas encore séché», a déclaré Abdelkader Messahel, le 11 avril 2018, lors d'une conférence donnée à l'Institut français des relations internationales (Ifri), sur le thème «Contre le terrorisme et l'extrémisme, la déradicalisation: l'expérience algérienne».

«Livrée à elle-même, la Libye sombra dans le chaos, un chaos, sciemment ou non, nourri et entretenu par différents acteurs, transformée en un arsenal à ciel ouvert et en sanctuaire pour les groupes terroristes qui étendirent peu à peu leur champ d'action à l'ensemble des vastes espaces sahéliens et au-delà, malgré une mobilisation plus grande des États de la région, une présence plus forte des troupes étrangères et le recours aux équipements de surveillance et de détection les plus performants», a-t-il ajouté.

Ahmed Gaid Salah, chef d'état-major de l'ANP
CC BY-SA 4.0 / LAMRAOUI.LAMIN / AHMED GAID SALAH WITH THE ARMY
L’armée algérienne met le cap sur l’industrie militaire afin d’arrêter l’importation
Et, alors que l'Algérie défend une solution politique en Libye, en appelant à mettre toutes les parties du conflit autour d'une table, dans le but de faire émerger une entente entre Libyens sans aucune ingérence étrangère, l'armée américaine, quant à elle, n'arrête pas de semer le chaos en bombardant le pays de temps à autre. Ceci continue de soumettre la sécurité nationale algérienne à de graves dangers en particulier sur la frontière est du pays avec la Libye, mais pas seulement. Ces derniers jours, un impressionnant mouvement migratoire venant de la région du Sahel, menace aussi la frontière sud de l'Algérie.
«Nous recevons une moyenne de 500 clandestins par jour au niveau des wilayas de Tamanrasset et Adrar qui sont frontalières avec le Mali et le Niger. Dans ces deux pays, il y a deux plaques tournantes régionales très importantes de la migration. L'une passe par Agadez et l'autre passe par Bamako, constituant des couloirs migratoires à destination de l'Algérie», a déclaré Hacène Kacimi, directeur d'études du phénomène migratoire au ministère algérien de l'Intérieur, dans un entretien donné, le 23 avril, à la radio nationale chaîne 3.

«Les migrants ne nous préoccupent pas. Ce qui nous préoccupe c'est ce qu'il y a derrière. La migration est la trame de ce nouveau phénomène qui a un caractère géostratégique», a-t-il ajouté.

À ce titre, le commandant de l'AFRICOM a déclaré, le 13 mars 2018, devant le Sénat américain que «très peu de défis auxquels l'Afrique doit faire face ne peuvent être réglés uniquement par la force».

Un officier de la marine algérienne
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L’armée algérienne construira ses propres corvettes de patrouille ultrasophistiquées
Si c'est l'estimation du général Thomas Waldhauser, pour quelle raison sont lancées les manœuvres militaires Flintlock 2018? Ces dernières, regroupant 1.500 soldats (africains, américains et européens), se déroulent depuis le 11 avril 2018 dans l'ouest et le nord du Niger, incluant les régions de Tillabéri et de Tahoua (ouest), proches du Mali, et Agadez au nord, proche de la Libye, de l'Algérie et du Mali. Il s'agit de «permettre au G5» avec ses modestes armées, «de prendre en charge les menaces plus directement et plus efficacement», a déclaré le général Mark Hicks, commandant des opérations spéciales de l'AFRICOM lors d'une conférence de presse. «Daech* touche à sa fin en Irak et en Syrie […], l'Afrique reste une de ces terres fertiles» pour abriter des combattants, a-t-il souligné.
Or, l'armée algérienne qui refuse par principe d'intervenir en dehors de ses frontières, a décliné la demande de la France de participer à la force militaire africaine, le G5 Sahel (G5S), qui s'est constituée sous ses auspices, et à laquelle prennent part le Mali, le Niger, le Burkina Faso, le Tchad et la Mauritanie, dans le but de lutter contre le terrorisme dans la région, lui préférant une force africaine. Ajoutant que les États-Unis, la France et le Royaume-Uni, en continuant à s'opposer à une solution politique en Syrie, dont le bombardement du 13 avril est le dernier épisode, ne pourraient que susciter les soupçons quant à leurs véritables objectifs dans la région du Sahel. À ce titre, rappelant que ce jeudi se tient à Paris une réunion ministérielle sur la lutte contre le financement du terrorisme dans la bande sahélienne, organisée conjointement par la France et l'Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques (OCDE), et à laquelle prend part le ministre algérien des Affaires étrangères, une journée après sa rencontre à Alger avec le commandant de l'AFRICOM.

L'économie serait-elle le vrai enjeu?

Alger
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Les détails du modus operandi «des services secrets étrangers» qui viseraient l’Algérie
Entre l'Europe et l'Algérie, les relations économiques, ces derniers mois, se sont dégradées à cause des mesures de restriction des importations décidées par les autorités algériennes, suite à la crise financière qui frappe le pays, et ce depuis la chute des prix du pétrole. Lesdites restrictions ébranlent, selon la Commission européenne, les accords de libre-échange contenus dans l'accord d'association entre l'Union européenne et l'Algérie.
«Nous avons bien expliqué à nos partenaires de l'Union européenne, avec qui nous avons une relation stratégique, que nous traversons une période très difficile sur le plan financier, particulièrement pour la balance commerciale et celle des paiements, et qu'il s'agit aussi d'une période transitoire », a déclaré Said Djellab, ministre algérien du Commerce, lors d'une conférence de presse le 26 avril, selon le site d'information Tout Sur l'Algérie (TSA).

Cependant, le froid dans les relations entre les deux parties n'est pas juste lié à la crise financière que traverse l'Algérie. Car, après 11 ans de mise en application de ces accords, le bilan des échanges commerciaux été en faveur de l'Europe plus que de l'Algérie.

«En 11 ans de mise en œuvre de l'accord d'association entre les deux parties, l'Algérie a importé pour plus de 250 milliards de dollars et a exporté vers l'Europe pour moins de 14 milliards de dollars en produits hors-hydrocarbures», rappelle TSA.

Cette situation serait la raison qui aurait poussé Alger à se tourner vers la Chine et la Russie se qui aurait aggravé les désaccords entre l'Algérie et l'Europe. Au passage, rappelons que ce jeudi s'ouvre au tribunal de Blida, le procès du terroriste qui planifiait des attaques en Algérie contre les ressortissants chinois et russes, selon Ennahar TV, qui n'a pas manqué d'émettre des soupçons quant aux véritables commanditaires derrière la personne jugée.

Réunion des ministres des Affaires étrangères de la Fédération de Russie et de l'Algérie S. Lavrov et A. Messahela
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Entre la Russie et l’Algérie, un partenariat stratégique prometteur
À ceci s'ajoutant le rebond enregistré dans les prix du pétrole ces derniers jours, ce qui ne manquerait pas de donner une bouffée d'oxygène au budget de l'État algérien. En effet, le PDG de la société nationale algérienne des hydrocarbures Sonatrach, Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour, a estimé dans une déclaration à la presse que le prix de 74,69 dollars le baril, auquel s'affiche le pétrole, était celui recherché par la Sonatrach. Selon lui, ce prix permettra à l'entreprise qu'il dirige d'investir dans la prospection afin d'augmenter ses réserves et sa production. À ce titre, M.Ould Kaddour a annoncé, le 24 avril, que l'entreprise algérienne avait découvert un puit de pétrole dans le nord du Niger, foré par le groupe chinois GWDC pour le compte de Sonatrach, selon l'APS. Selon la même agence, le groupe Sonatrach détient un permis de recherche à 100 % au niveau de la zone «Karfa-1» située à 100 km de la frontière algéro-nigérienne.
À ce stade de l'analyse, il serait clair que les paroles protocolaires de bonnes intentions, tenues par le commandant de l'AFRICOM à Alger, cacheraient mal des appétits que les Occidentaux ont dans la région du Sahel voir dans toute l'Afrique.
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hada il as bien expliquer la chose. Yatek sa77a.
Il semble également admis une fois pour toutes que le Sahel et la Libye sont le nouveau Afghanistan, un foyer chronique d’instabilité délibérément entretenu par des puissances tierces pour y intervenir militairement dans un cadre stratégique plus vaste incluant entre autres objectifs la lutte contre l’influence chinoise en Afrique mais également la mise au pas de cette région et son remodelage.
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report is out, lets wait for the first leaks...
Mattis says military addressing ‘problems’ uncovered in deadly Niger attack
Congressional committees have received the 200-page summary on the Niger attack, and the four victims’ families are being briefed on the investigation results this week.


WASHINGTON—The U.S. military is addressing problems brought to light after the Niger attack last year that killed four American service members, Defence Secretary Jim Mattis told Congress Thursday.

‘We have found what we believe to be the crux of the problems — not problem but problems — that contributed to this,” Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee. “It was not a delegation of authority problem.”

As a result, he said, “we know immediately how to address” those problems.

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Congressional committees have received the 200-page summary on the Niger attack, and victims’ families are being briefed on the investigation results this week. The full report is about 6,300 pages long, including interviews and information gathered across three continents.

Officials have said the report found breakdowns in the mission approval process and other failures. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss conclusions not yet publicly released.

According to officials, the investigation concludes the Army Special Forces team didn’t get required senior command approval for their risky mission to capture a high-level Daesh, also known as the Islamic State, militant. U.S. special operations forces have been advising and working with local troops on the continent, including in Niger, for a number of years.

The four U.S. soldiers and four Nigerien troops were killed Oct. 4 about 200 kilometres north of Niamey, Niger’s capital, when they were attacked by as many as 100 Daesh-linked militants travelling by vehicle and carrying small arms and rocket-propelled grenade launchers. Two other American soldiers and eight Nigerien forces were wounded.

Officials have said no one has yet been punished in connection with the failures linked to the mission and the attack. Once all of the families have been briefed and an unclassified version of the report is made public, any discipline decisions would be made by senior commanders at U.S. Special Operations Command.

Killed in the attack were Staff Sgt. Bryan C. Black, 35, of Puyallup, Wash.; Staff Sgt. Jeremiah W. Johnson, 39, of Springboro, Ohio; Staff Sgt. Dustin M. Wright, 29, of Lyons, Ga.; and Army Sgt. La David T. Johnson, 25, of Miami Gardens, Fla. La David Johnson became separated from the others as he fought and ran for cover in the brush. He was gunned down, but his body wasn’t found until two days later.

Black and Wright were Army Green Berets. Johnson and Johnson were not, but were part of the special forces team.
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In Wake of Ambush, US Will Maintain Small Troop Presence in Niger

Protection Secretary Jim Mattis stated Thursday that the U.S. will preserve a long-term however smaller troop presence in Niger, the place severe command failures reportedly led to the deaths of 4 members of the Military‘s Third Particular Forces Group final Oct. 4.

At the moment, there are about 800 U.S. troops in Niger, based on U.S. Africa Command, however a lot of them are concerned within the building of a drone base close to Agadez, Mattis stated.

“And they’re going to come out when that building is completed,” he stated.

“I don’t see any important enhance” on the horizon within the variety of troops that might stay, Mattis stated, however “there might be momentary will increase” because the U.S. works with native forces to fight an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) offshoot and different terror teams within the trans-Sahel area.



At a Senate Armed Companies Committee listening to, he stated the Pentagon’s focus is on working “by, with and thru” companions in Niger, and “that’s one thing that doesn’t name for big numbers of U.S. troops. Our Particular Forces are ideally fitted to that type of factor.”

Mattis spoke as a number of information retailers reported that an Article 15-6 fact-finding investigation into the 4 deaths final 12 months concluded that command failures, poor consideration to the principles of engagement, and a “tradition of extreme threat” within the Particular Forces contributed to the ambush of a joint patrol close to the village of Tongo Tongo.

The stories cited officers who had reviewed the 6,000-page investigation led by Military Maj. Gen. Roger Cloutier, chief of employees to Marine Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, the AFRICOM commander. The Wall Avenue Journal was first to report on the investigation’s findings.

The patrol of 11 U.S. and about 30 Nigerien troops set off in pickup vehicles from a base close to Niamey, the Nigerien capital, on Oct. three on a mission to satisfy with native village chieftains. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford has stated that mission was anticipated to pose little threat.


The patrol had no air cowl or close by floor backup, however lower-level commanders labored by means of the chain of command to get approval for a change in mission to 1 involving a seek for an area militant chief.

No less than one of many low-level commanders copied and pasted orders from a separate mission onto the project for the joint patrol, as a way to get approval from his superiors for the raid on the navy chief’s suspected compound, The Wall Avenue Journal reported.

The patrol discovered solely an deserted camp however was later ambushed by a pressure of greater than 50 fighters, suspected to belong to a bunch referred to as ISIS within the Better Sahel.

Helmet-camera video included within the investigation report confirmed the Individuals taking hearth behind the pickups whereas preventing again in an try to interrupt out of the ambush.

Along with the Article 15-6 investigation, the FBI carried out a assessment of the nationwide safety implications from the ambush that killed Sgt. La David Johnson, 25, of Miami Gardens, Florida; Employees Sgt. Bryan C. Black, 35, of Puyallup, Washington; Employees Sgt. Jeremiah W. Johnson, 39, of Springboro, Ohio; and Employees Sgt. Dustin M. Wright, 29, of Lyons, Georgia.

4 Nigerien troops and a Nigerien interpreter additionally have been killed within the assault.

The physique of Sgt. La David Johnson was not discovered till two days after the ambush in northwestern Niger close to the Mali border, about 120 miles north of Niamey.

Regardless of the command failures, the Article 15-6 investigation didn’t advocate disciplinary motion towards these concerned. Nonetheless, the Military or Particular Operations Command might finally pursue court-martial actions or different disciplinary measures, the Journal stated.

The investigation, which included an animated video reconstruction of how the ambush came about, additionally listed a collection of directives from Mattis on coaching and operational steerage to enhance communications throughout the chain of command.

It was unclear when a redacted model of the categorised Article 15-6 investigation can be launched to the general public. The Pentagon’s precedence is to temporary the households of the fallen first on the findings; the household of Sgt. La David Johnson is scheduled to be briefed subsequent week, the Journal stated.

The sergeant’s loss of life set off a bitter dispute between his widow, Myeshia Johnson, and the White Home over a condolence name President Donald Trump made to the household.

The president stated, ” ‘He [Sgt. Johnson] knew what he signed up for, but it surely hurts anyway,’ ” Myeshia Johnson stated in an ABC Information interview. “It made me cry as a result of I used to be very offended on the tone in his voice and the way he stated it.”

She additionally stated that Trump “could not keep in mind my husband’s identify. The one approach he remembered my husband’s identify is as a result of he informed me he had my husband’s report in entrance of him and that is when he truly stated ‘La David.’ “

Trump denied that he forgot the identify and that he stated Sgt. Johnson knew what he was signing up for. He stated, “I had a really respectful dialog with the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, and spoke his identify from starting, with out hesitation.”

At the moment, there are about 6,000 troops deployed or on momentary project in Africa, a lot of them on the main U.S. base in Djibouti on the Pink Sea.

President Barack Obama first despatched U.S. troops to Niger in 2013 as unrest unfold within the area.




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