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Extraction Without Value: Mali’s Role in the Global Lithium Rush$

By Mohamed AG Ahmedou, via MondAfrique: Mali’s strategic resources are a formidable source of enrichment for Beijing, while leaving Bamako drained. On September 10, the African Union unveiled a draft declaration aimed at bringing together countries that produce...

Turkey: Erdogan’s Winning Strategy in Africa$

Despite the wave of coups d'état in West Africa, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had close ties to the ousted regimes of Guinea, Mali, and Niger, has successfully protected his country's interests in the region. He has done so through a strategy that...

The Human Cost of the EU-Mauritania Migration Partnership$

Since early 2024, the Mauritanian government has intensified its enforcement operations against undocumented sub-Saharan migrants in Nouakchott, Nouadhibou, and other urban centers. This campaign, which includes increased checkpoints and arrests, is a direct...

Protests Erupt as Water Shortage Grips Mauritania$

Opposition lawmakers in Mauritania staged a sit-in at the Ministry of Water to protest a two-week-long water shortage in the capital. The demonstration, which included a demand for the immediate resignation of the Water Minister, comes amid growing public frustration...

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...

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