Shield and Alert: Sahel Bound

Mali’s Problems in Four Minutes Opinion By Arezki Daoud: Yesterday, we reported how the Tuareg community in northern Mali has rejected the latest constitutional referendum imposed by the ruling military junta in Bamako. Not only the constitution gives tremendous power...

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...

Algeria has forced more than 9,000 African migrants over the border into Niger creating a "critical humanitarian situation", two United Nations bodies said in a report released Thursday. "Since the start of the year, more than 9,000 distressed migrants who were driven...

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,...