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Senegal’s outgoing president prepares for disgraced exitF

By Francis Sahel, Mondafrique:  In the absence of any other alternative, Senegalese President Mack Sall announced last Friday his intention to comply with the Constitutional Council’s decision to hold the presidential election and leave power by April 2. The Council’s...

Africa’s 2024 Elections Off to a Bad StartF

By Arezki Daoud: It’s an election year in Africa and it already started badly. The East African island of Comoros in the Indian Ocean opened the election cycle on 14 January, with autocratic figure Azali Assoumani “re-elected” for a third term, presumably winning 63%...

Sahel: Wagner Group closes in on Mali’s N’Tillit gold mineF

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso share a common border.  GPS coordinates [14.9143, 0.2424] are where the three countries meet, and this is an area where terrorism and instability reign supreme. Insurgent groups have proliferated, attacking on one side of the border(s),...

Mali’s parliament approves draft electoral law to facilitate return to civilian ruleF

Mali's transitional parliament approved a draft electoral law on Friday, a measure designed to ease the return of the country to civilian rule. The bill must be approved by the head of the military junta,  President Assim Goita, before it becomes law. The military...

Sahel: Russian mercenaries of the Wagner Group take over base left by French military in MaliF

Russian mercenaries arrived in the Malian town of Menaka on Wednesday just days after France's military pullout from the site, sources briefed on the matter told AFP. France  handed back the military base in northeastern Mali on Monday, as part of its withdrawal from...

Sahel: French forces withdraw from Menaka base in northern MaliF

French troops were on Monday handing back a military base in northeastern Mali ahead of a final withdrawal from the Sahel nation, France's army said, after nine years fighting a jihadist insurgency.  The UN emissary there warned that the French withdrawal could leave...

Sahel: Insurgents kill dozen policemen in north Burkina FasoF

Suspected jihadists killed 11 police overnight in an attack in northern Burkina Faso near the border with Niger, the army said on Friday. A gendarme brigade at Seytenga in the Sahel region came under a "terrorist attack", the military said. "Eleven gendarmes accepted...

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