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Sahel: Mali has a new constitutionF

Malian voters overwhelmingly approved changes to the constitution in a referendum, marking a key step in the ruling junta's declared plans to restore civilian rule, provisional results showed Friday.  The military has made the draft constitution a cornerstone for the...

Sahel: More trouble in Mali as Touareg groups in north are up in arms over recent junta actionsF

Armed groups that signed a landmark peace accord in insurgency-hit Mali have alleged widespread fraud during voting in a weekend referendum for a new constitution. The Permanent Strategic Framework (CSP), gathering political and military movements in northern Mali,...

Sahel: Burkina Faso endorses Mali’s call for the withdrawal of UN missionF

Burkina Faso on Sunday hailed the "courageous decision" by Mali's military regime to call on the UN to withdraw its Minusma peacekeeping force, as both countries fight a jihadist insurgency. Mali's Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop on Friday had called for the immediate...

Mali rulers pushing for a breakup with UN, accusing it of spyingF

Mali's ruling junta has asked prosecutors to probe the UN's peacekeeping mission for "espionage" following a report which said hundreds of people were massacred last year by Malian troops and their allies. In a statement published on social media on Tuesday, the...
Sahel: Deadly week in MaliF

Sahel: Deadly week in MaliF

A suicide attack targeted a military base in northern Mali on Friday, the army said, a day after deadly strikes on an...

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