On the Roundup Wrap weekly segment, Mighti Jaime helps us look back at the biggest news stories and events from the past week across Africa and beyond, especially where global developments could have a real bearing on the continent.


** Israel has become the first country to formally recognise Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland as an independent nation. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel intended to immediately expand cooperation in agriculture, health, and technology. Somaliland's president, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, called the development "a historic moment".


** The UK is to impose visa restrictions against people arriving from the Democratic Republic of Congo after its government failed to agree to measures allowing the return of illegal migrants and foreign national offenders.


** Niger has announced a total ban on issuing visas to American citizens and their entry into the country. This in response to restrictive measures imposed by the US administration against several African countries, as part of a policy marked by refocusing American diplomacy and hardening its immigration policy.


** An Afrikaner flew to the United States expecting protection. Instead, he has spent months locked up at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Georgia alongside hundreds of other immigrants.




** U.S.-backed air strikes in Nigeria hit two Islamic State-linked camps in the Bauni forest of Sokoto State, targeting foreign fighters infiltrating from the Sahel. The operation marks a rare joint action between Abuja and Washington and underscores growing security cooperation as Islamist violence spreads south from the Sahel.