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Dette : qui sont les créanciers de l’Afrique ?

Près de 400 milliards d’euros. C’est le montant de la dette publique extérieure des pays d’Afrique subsaharienne. Chine, Banque mondiale, Club de Paris, créanciers privés… Auprès de qui l’Afrique est-elle endettée ? La réponse, pays par pays, en infographies. Le débat sur le niveau d’endettement public des pays africains est …

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BNPT: Internet Tantangan Penanganan Terorisme Saat Pandemi

Kepala Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Terorisme (BNPT) Komjen Pol Boy Rafli Amar mengungkapkan tantangan utama penanggulangan terorisme di masa pandemi Covid-19 kini muncul di media internet. “Selama masa pandemi grup teroris memaksimalkan aktivitas daring. Mereka aktif melakukan propaganda dan proses rekrutmen anggota bahkan soal pendanaan,” kata dia melalui keterangan tertulis yang …

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Jordanian Salafi-Jihadi Ideologue Al-Maqdisi Denounces Syria-Based Saudi Cleric Al-Muhaysini’s Call For Bolstering ‘Brotherhood’ Between Turkey, Taliban

On June 27, 2021, Syria-based Saudi jihadi cleric Abdallah Al-Muhaysini tweeted [1] a call to bolster ties between Turkey and Afghanistan’s Taliban. Commenting briefly on a potentially closer relationship, Al-Muhaysini wrote: “It is proper for Muslim Turkey, which supported people and provided refuge to the oppressed, to be supportive of …

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As Ethiopian Troops Exit Tigray, Time to Focus on Relief

The devastating civil war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region took a stunning turn on 28 June. Eight months after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered a federal military intervention to remove Tigray’s governing party from power and quash Tigrayan loyalist forces, federal troops had to abandon almost all the territory they had …

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Resurgent Tigray and Horn of Africa Politics

The war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region just took an unexpected turn. Seemingly isolated in mountainous reaches of central Tigray only weeks ago, Tigrayan rebels last week overran regional capital Mekelle and other cities and towns they had left last November when federal troops moved in. They were met by dancing …

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