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NIGER: MSF ordered out of north after third hijacking

Nigerien authorities have ordered the French aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières to stop working in northern Niger after three of its vehicles were hijacked in the last week. “They have been ordered to leave Agadez,” the governor of the Agadez region, Malam Boukar Abba told IRIN on 23 October. “[MSF] wanted to intervene in many different areas and we let them do a lot but… I do not see any point in them continuing – I don’t think MSF came here to be threatened at gunpoint.” Two MSF four wheel...

DRC: Army calls on rebels to integrate

The Congolese army has launched an appeal for militias loyal to renegade army general Laurent Nkunda, as well as other combatants and armed groups in the eastern province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), to be integrated into the army or be demobilised. "I am particularly calling on [missing] Forces armées de la RDC [FARDC, the national army] militias, because they are paid by FARDC, to go the brassage centre," Lt. Gen Dieudonne Kayembe, the Congolese army...

MALI: Indignation dominates reaction as attacks in north escalate

In a spate of attacks by armed militias in north-eastern Mali over the last week at least 35 soldiers have been kidnapped and 11 people killed by newly laid landmines, raising fears that escalating violence in neighbouring Niger is spreading to Mali. Between 26 and 30 August, a convoy of officials from the Ministry of Agriculture was attacked, a Malian army convoy was attacked, and in separate incidents 10 civilians and one soldier were killed when the vehicles they were traveling in hit...

NIGER: NGOs in north calling for peace

A mayor in northern Niger has warned that civilians are increasingly being caught up in insecurity caused by fighting between the Nigerien army and armed militias, and has called for an end to hostilities. “The goal is to limit the humanitarian crisis which is emerging, and to appeal to the warring parties for a halt in hostilities in the interest of everyone,” Issouf Ag Maha, the mayor of Tchirozerine and the head of a local association of non-government organisations (NGOs), told IRIN....