The United Nation stabilisation mission in Mali also known as MINUSMA announced that their pullout has started from two camps in the tense Kidal region.
The peacekeeping mission kicked… Read More
The withdrawal of U.N. forces and the reluctance of international intervention have left Mali at the mercy of Islamist militants and ethnic conflicts
In 2012, French forces and the U.N. i… Read More
Mali has said it “will not stand idly by” if foreign governments intervene in neighouring Niger, Bamako’s top diplomat warned the United Nations on Saturday, after bot… Read More
Armed groups from northern Mali on Wednesday claimed they captured the key town of Bourem, between Gao and Timbuktu, before pulling out, fuelling fears of the collapse of a peace deal betwee… Read More
The military overthrow of the democratic government in Gabon, coming a month after a similar development in Niger, is raising concerns about the future of democracy in Africa, write ADELAN… Read More
What will happen to the Wagner mercenary team next?
The Wagner paramilitary organization was created by Yevgeny Prigozhin over the course of roughly ten years, and it was essential to bot… Read More
Niger as battle ground is sweet music to the ears of President Alassane Dramane Ouattara whose goal is to divert attention from his contentious third term in Cote d’Ivoire and keep war… Read More
Africa’s Sahel, home to some of the world’s poorest, most politically unstable and conflict-prone countries, is once again in crisis.
With the July 26 military takeover in Niger… Read More
The Malian army has announced the dispatch of a joint official delegation to Niger in solidarity with the country, which recently experienced a military coup. The delegation, led by Malian M… Read More
Not only are military coups becoming frighteningly frequent in West and Central Africa, virtually all of them, it appears, also speak French. For the fifth time in three years in West Afr… Read More
By Henry Srebrnik, [Fredericton, NB] Daily Gleaner
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the recent
actions of the Wagner Group and its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose brazen mu… Read More
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Mali’s Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop took the world by surprise on June 16 when he asked the UN to withdraw its Minusma peacekeeping force immediately.
While… Read More
There are “strong indications” that more than 500 people were killed – the vast majority summarily executed – by Malian troops and foreign military personnel during a… Read More
Shoppers in Mali’s Gao, Timbuktu, and Ménaka regions can snap up AK-pattern assault rifles for $750 and cartridges for 70 cents apiece, from locally handcrafted pistols to smugg… Read More
The interim military government of Mali has dismissed a United Nations human rights office report that detailed the alleged execution of at least 500 people by Malian soldiers and unidentif… Read More
About 60 civilians were killed in a village in northern Burkina Faso by men wearing military uniforms, the local prosecutor said late Sunday, announcing an investigation into the latest bloo… Read More
Fourteen Malian soldiers were killed and 11 wounded on Tuesday in two separate attacks in central Mali after their vehicles struck explosive devices, the army said on Wednesday. The incident… Read More
Mali’s junta leader has pardoned 49 Ivorian soldiers arrested in July and accused of conspiring against the Malian government, the presidency said in a statement on Friday.
The… Read More
A member of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine prepares to fire 152 mm howitzer 2A65 Msta-B, near Bahmut – ReutersUkraine claims the last 24 hours were the… Read More
By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Leaders of the 15-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), agreed on Dec. 4, during a summit in the Nigerian c… Read More
It has been revealed that two Nigerian peacekeepers have been killed in Mali.
They were killed in an attack on a patrol team near Timbuktu in Mali, according to The United Nation… Read More
West African leaders said on Sunday they would establish a regional peacekeeping force to intervene in member states to help restore security and constitutional order in a region that has wi… Read More
Image Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyABUJA, Nigeria—Survivors of an armed raid say mercenaries from Putin’s non-public military sexually assaulted a dozen g… Read More
The German military is scrutinising the actions of Russian forces that recently arrived near its main camp in the Gao area of Mali and is keeping a close eye on the operation of the airport… Read More
West Africa’s main political and economic bloc imposed more sanctions on Guinea’s ruling junta on Thursday for failing to establish a new schedule for a transition to d… Read More