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🇳🇬 The Rise of the Lakurawa Militant Group in Nigeria

🚨 A new militant group, the Lakurawa, has emerged in Nigeria's northwest, particularly in Sokoto and Kebbi states. Linked to jihadist factions in the Sahel, this group is causing alarm with its strict Islamic laws, kidnappings, and attacks on government officials. Initially seen as protectors, their harsh governance turned locals against them.

The Nigerian government has declared Lakurawa a terrorist organization, empowering security forces to dismantle their operations. However, parallels with Boko Haram highlight the need for a balanced approach to address root causes and prevent further destabilization.

Lakurawa’s ties to ISIS in the Sahel add to the regional security crisis, making their swift neutralization critical for Nigeria’s stability.

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South-African Soldiers have had enough and are hoisting the white flag

Surrendering to M23 Militia

kabe1:
South-African Soldiers have had enough and are hoisting the white flag

Surrendering to M23 Militia

nice try bro:

"Dlamini confirmed the authenticity of the video but said the white flag had been raised as part of a brief truce agreed between the SANDF forces and the M23/Rwandan force to allow M23 to collect their dead from the battlefield. The SANDF agreed to that if the SANDF could transport its injured out of the camp for treatment."

kabe1:
South-African Soldiers have had enough and are hoisting the white flag

Surrendering to M23 Militia

M23 Bodies are being piled sky high by our boys,

The Rwandan generals used to be trained in NDA, I think they still are, but what you described seems above what Nigerian military can do.

Lurker4Long:
Lessons of Bangui were not learned, or quickly forgotten. Intelligence failure, no air support, inadequate force structure.
It's been clear for a while that Rwandan military was actively involved: SAM systems, radars, guided mortars, ATGMs, GPS jamming and spoofing etc.

Again ?
What even brought them back to the region ? This is what happened to them in the CAR.

kabe1:
South-African Soldiers have had enough and are hoisting the white flag

Surrendering to M23 Militia

jl115:
M23 Bodies are being piled sky high by our boys,

Dude, you are deliciously delusional!!!

Better go beg M23.

jl115:
M23 Bodies are being piled sky high by our boys,

After all you've seen and read here. Why do you bother?

A question for some amongst us who seem to derive pleasure in South African misfortune: does it in anyway improve your life and your circumstances?

Lurker4Long:
A question for some amongst us who seem to derive pleasure in South African misfortune: does it in anyway improve your life and your circumstances?

Personally I don’t. But I’m really wondering why a nationalist country like SA is comfortable sending her troops to fight insurgency in faraway DRC and the public isn’t making noise about it. Surely there must be a catch, right?

Lurker4Long:
A question for some amongst us who seem to derive pleasure in South African misfortune: does it in anyway improve your life and your circumstances?

You just posted an article on the death of 22 Nigerian soldiers.

And your next post is this?? Atleast you added RIP!

jl115:
nice try bro:

"Dlamini confirmed the authenticity of the video but said the white flag had been raised as part of a brief truce agreed between the SANDF forces and the M23/Rwandan force to allow M23 to collect their dead from the battlefield. The SANDF agreed to that if the SANDF could transport its injured out of the camp for treatment."

Which kain eba turning be this.

Shaytun:
You just posted an article on the death of 22 Nigerian soldiers.

And your next post is this?? Atleast you added RIP!

Did I in any way devalue the Nigerian lives lost? Or is your contention that any mention of Nigeria is a challenge that you have to answer?

I mostly lament all the negatives afflicting our continent when I post about food insecurity, debt, legal deficiencies, inflation etc. and present stats to back up my assertions. This is tied to security and mostly related to the topic of this thread.

Yes, I post about mostly about SA and our endevours in the defence field, and I make no apologies for that.
Show me a single post where I have done this to compete or compare and, most important, take pleasure -schadenfraude is too mild a word - in the loss of human life of others.

Faithful007:
Personally I don’t. But I’m really wondering why a nationalist country like SA is comfortable sending her troops to fight insurgency in faraway DRC and the public isn’t making noise about it. Surely there must be a catch, right?

1) I know you don't.
2) SA a nationalist country? Explain how you get there...
3) Look at democratic SA's military involvement;
4) SA military activities are always contested. It always depends on who's doing the contesting and therefore the media.
Nuance, always advantageous in Saffer analysis, young man.

kabe1:
South-African Soldiers have had enough and are hoisting the white flag

Surrendering to M23 Militia

See what you have caused, small candle that was given to you, you use it to cook and burn the entire kitchen. We are not letting you cook again.

Exnavyboy62:
See what you have caused, small candle that was given to you, you use it to cook and burn the entire kitchen. We are not letting you cook again.

Ghostagain:
The Rwandan generals used to be trained in NDA, I think they still are, but what you described seems above what Nigerian military can do.

Nahhh stop it.

kabe1:
Dude, you are deliciously delusional!!!

Better go beg M23.

Just the facts mate M23 and Rwanda still can't overrun our boys even with a massive numerical advantage

Same old thread

Exnavyboy62:
See what you have caused, small candle that was given to you, you use it to cook and burn the entire kitchen. We are not letting you cook again.

Latest update:

Kenyan generals and military strategists recognised the problem in DRC to be a political one that needed a political solution,@eacrf_DRC
actually did its job. It secured territory, it protected civilians, it got the combatants to the table. Basically, EACRF guaranteed peace.

The force was supposed to act as a tool of diplomacy to compel compliance to the political agreement.
DRC however wanted an auxiliary force that they could control (and not pay for) that they could use to attack Rwanda. The Congolese weren't and aren't interested in peace.

Jan 7, 2023....M23 Rebels vacate Rumagambo as KDF exploits Military Diplomacy doctrines in the Area of Operation.

In 2022, the KDF arrived in DRC (EACRF), as M23 were advancing towards Goma. Advance was halted. There was withdrawal of M23 from Kibumba, Rumagambo & Kishishe.

Then came DRC elections.Tshisekedi who was facing an election, needed a war to galvanise support. What was a smooth relationship with the force and force commander swiftly deteriorated up to that (in)famous incident where he publicly berated the Force Commander in the presence of EAC Heads of State, for not going to war as he wanted. Bear in mind as all this was going on, DRC wasn't even remitting its financial contribution to the mission, as earlier agreed, and Kenya was bearing the majority of the cost.

KDF had to leave to save its image from complex security situation.

2025: Goma has fallen

What is a Romanian PMC doing in DRC?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGCbeLDyCmw?si=K4mK3FZiYP59CuXd

Tinfoil:
What is a Romanian PMC doing in DRC?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGCbeLDyCmw?si=K4mK3FZiYP59CuXd

African Continent is now a hot market for PMC !

NTSA:
Kenyan generals and military strategists recognised the problem in DRC to be a political one that needed a political solution,@eacrf_DRC
actually did its job. It secured territory, it protected civilians, it got the combatants to the table. Basically, EACRF guaranteed peace.

The force was supposed to act as a tool of diplomacy to compel compliance to the political agreement.
DRC however wanted an auxiliary force that they could control (and not pay for) that they could use to attack Rwanda. The Congolese weren't and aren't interested in peace.

I remember posting this back then

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What goals are these that EACRF is not pursuing? Did you ever read the EAC mandate to the regional force and observed that they were not following it?

EAC sent the regional force to try its best to settle the matter in a political peace process while protecting civilians this is exactly what it has been trying to do.. if all negotiations fail, this is when force would be used.
You have to remember that FIB under UN already militarily defeated M23 before... The few who were left went back to the trenches, regrouped, recruited more teens, got more supplies from outside and here we are again... So killing them clearly did not work. DRC needs to find a way to co-exist with its own people and both sides need to be honest about the peace process. [And this is what is lacking from both sides, and I would even say especially from the DRCs govt's side, I get the feeling that they don't want to make peace with M23 ... And they were hoping they could gorge the EACRF commander into breaking his own mandate and fight the rebels by instigating ceasefire violations near EACRF formations and blame them on the rebels, but he saw right through them..
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Here is a breakdown of EACRF mission for DRC . This was a speech given at beginning of the deployment.... The EACRF has only achieved ful deployment of all its contributing countries (with exception of Tz and Rwanda) just 2 weeks ago and you already want to label it a failed mission, really?

The commander of the East African Community military force deployed in eastern DR Congo has said political and diplomatic processes are “the first priority” among efforts to pacify the country’s restive region.

Maj Gen Jeff Nyagah, from Kenya, said the military option does not always guarantee peace.
“Sometimes, war does not necessarily bring peace. You have to pursue diplomacy,” Gen Nyagah told journalists in Goma on Wednesday, November 16.

He said there were a number of options to end the conflict in eastern DR Congo, a region that has known no peace for over two decades and is home to multiple armed groups.
The current conflict between government forces FARDC and the M23 rebel group has intensified since October 20. An estimated 188,000 people have been internally displaced.
The political process was “the first priority,” among the options to be considered, Gen Nyagah said, referring to the Nairobi talks between the Congolese government and the armed groups operating in the country’s east and the Luanda roadmap, which was signed in Angola in July between Rwanda and DR Congo presidents.

“The second track, and is very critical for you to note, is the issue of disarmament and demobilisation not only targeting M23 – because we seem to focus on M23. We have over 120 armed groups in eastern DRC, and they have instigated a significant degree of insecurity.

“If these two tracks fail, then we’ll automatically transit to the third track, that is military action.”

Kenya has already deployed troops in eastern DR Congo as part of the regional efforts. The latest cohort arrived in Goma last week.

Kenya’s former President Uhuru Kenyatta, the EAC facilitator in the eastern DR Congo peace process, has called on all the armed groups to lay down their arms and allow dialogue to take place.

The latest intense fighting between FARDC and M23 on Friday, November 11 led to further displacements. Over 100 Congolese refugees have since crossed to Rwanda, as fighting approached Goma the capital of North Kivu Province.

The Nairobi talks are expected to resume on November 21. The EAC bloc has called for inclusivity in the process for a lasting solution to take hold.

https://www.newtimes.co.rw/article/2698/news/security/political-process-key-in-fixing-dr-congo-conflict--gen-nyagah

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But since the DRC govt just wants war and nothing else, añd is threatening the EACRF, the regional force might be forced into cutting short their plans and go straight into fighting without exhausting all other peaceful avenues, knowing very well that real long lasting peace will never be achieved.

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Jeez, Romania pmcs 🤮
Hygiene 🪥 is too important to ever consider using any Romanian product, jeez 🤮

bidexiii:
African Continent is now a hot market for PMC !

Ghostagain:
Jeez, Romania pmcs 🤮
Hygiene 🪥 is too important to ever consider using any Romanian product, jeez 🤮

What's bad bout Romania?

Stormtrooper11:
What's bad bout Romania?

Hygiene and manners

Ghostagain:
Hygiene and manners

I see.