Cherif believes. Terrorism is an existential threat to most states, but not on the same level.

DOUALA( Reuters)-Clashes between herders and fishers in northern Cameroon have killed at least 12 people this week in the area's worst ethnic violence in recent memory, local officials said on Thursday.... The fighting in the Far North region, already plagued by violence from Islamist militant group Boko Haram, broke out on Tuesday, with fishers from the Mousgoum ethnic group opposing Arab herders, said Mahamat Bahar, a local customary chief.... Another official, who asked not to be named, sai

The trial of four Egyptian police officers, accused of the murder of Giulio Regeni, has begun in Rome. The four high-ranking security officials are being tried in absence of the 2016 killing of the Italian student in Cairo. The 28-year-old was abducted, tortured, and killed over five years ago, in a case that has deepened divisions between Italy and Egypt. Regeni’s mutilated body was found on a road days after he disappeared in the Egyptian capital on January 25.... He was in Cairo for his doct

CAIRO — A dramatic coronavirus surge in Tunisia has prompted other Arab countries to step in with supplies of vaccines and medical aid, as regional leaders flex their diplomatic muscles and try to earn goodwill. Support our journalism.... The United Arab Emirates, which started manufacturing vaccines earlier this year, has sent 500, 000 doses, and Tunisia’s neighbor Algeria has sent aid and 250, 000 doses.... And Saudi Arabia is able to do that, ” said Oussama Helal, an independent Tunisian an

Listen 4 min Comment on this story Comment Gift Article Share Each time Chérif Ke？... ta, a professor at Carleton College in Minnesota, lands in his native Mali and enters a taxi, he hears fewer radio hosts speaking French. Some commentators mix French with local tongues, Ke？... ArrowRight “ People are making a point to speak African languages, ” he said. What transmits over Mali’s radio waves may signal a broader shift in the West African country away from the language of its former colonizer

ADVERTISEMENT A trial begun this Friday in Paris over the 2018 attack on a Christmas market in Strasbourg.... Four suspects are accused of terrorism, criminal conspiracy and provision of weapons to the attacker.A fifth man, said to be in his eighties, may be trialled later, after a medical examination.... He managed to escape from the scene, but was shot dead by police two days later. Fifth person dies from mass shooting near Strasbourg Christmas market Chekatt was “ well known ” to the police