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Mali: Bamako Under Siege
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German Think Tank Accuses the UAE of Destabilizing Africa
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Mali: After Kidal, The War Comes to Bamako
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Mali: Russian-linked Forces Under Drone Pressure in Northern Mali
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Niger Turns to Local Self-Defense Units to Contain Growing Insecurity
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Mauritania: Ex-President Verdict Puts Mauritania’s Legal System Under Spotlight
Mauritania’s high-profile corruption trial of former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has sparked a bigger...
Guinea’s Mining Purge Echoes Mali’s Playbook, With Different Goals
Guinea’s junta has launched a sweeping crackdown on mining permits, abruptly revoking over 100 licenses for bauxite,...
West Africa: ECOWAS in turmoil
West Africa's economic grouping, ECOWAS, faces a new crisis as former chairman and Guinea-Bissau President Umaro...
Burkina Faso: Christian Kabore “wins” presidential election
Sahel: An army Colonel heads Mali’s legislative body
Mali's interim legislature on Saturday elected Colonel Malick Diaw, a member of the military junta that toppled...
Mali’s in big trouble: A legislative body appointed by a junta-backed government
Mali's interim government on Thursday announced the composition of a new legislative body for the West African...
Security crisis dominates campaigning for Burkina Faso’s presidential election
Sahel: Mali politics sinking to new low with military’s attempt at power grab
Sahel: Former president of Mali, Amadou Toumani Toure dies in Bamako
Burkina Faso president launches campaign for second term
Sahel: UN chief signals potential for dialogue with insurgents in the Sahel, but Paris won’t allow it
Sahel: Ecowas lifts sanctions on Mali, interim government releases detainees
Sahel: French hostage and Mali opposition leader freed
Power politics in the Sahel: Profile of a Sufi leader
Niger frees campaigners detained in protests over military contracts
Mali: Moctar Ouane appointed Interim Prime Minister
Mali’s neighbors want a civilian Prime Minister, pledge to keep sanctions otherwise
Mali: Military junta announces transitional leaders, recalls retired colonel as Interim President
Mali: Impasse in Bamako as opposition rejects junta-backed roadmap
Mali: North and central Mali remain tense while Bamako struggles to recover from coup
Mali: Military junta wants to appoint its own president
Sahel: Chad regime targets newspapers with forced closure
Mali: Ousted president Keita suffers mini-stroke, admitted in hospital
Mali protest movement proposes 2-year transition to civilian rule
Mali: Uncertainty looms about Mali’s political future
Bamako, Aug 31, 2020 - Conflict-riven Mali is at a crucial crossroads two weeks after a military junta took power in a...
Mali crisis not getting better: ECOWAS wants return to civilian rule, junta wants to stay
Mali: Ousted President returns home after being held by military junta
Mali: Negotiators fail to reach agreement on civilian rule
Bamako - Talks between West African envoys and Mali's new military rulers on Monday failed to yield an agreement on...
Mali: Coup leaders insist on military rule over the coming years
Mali: Ousted Malian president “looks tired but relaxed.”
Mali: While Mali people want their President out for incompetence, world leaders run to his rescue
Coup leaders in Mali faced a wave of international pressure on Wednesday, a day after they forced out a president...
Mali: The military is now in charge
Bamako, Aug 19, 2020 - Mali awoke on Wednesday to a new chapter in its troubled history after rebel military leaders...
Mali: President Boubacar Keita resigns and the people are cheering
Bamako, Aug 19, 2020 - Mali's president said he was resigning to avoid "bloodshed" early Wednesday, hours after his...
Breaking: Mutiny leaders announce arrest of president and Prime Minister
Developing story: Mutineering soldiers in Mali on Tuesday detained President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Prime Minister...
Former Mauritanian president under investigation for alleged embezzlement
Nouakchott, Aug 18, 2020 - Former Mauritanian president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, under suspicion over embezzlement...
Sahel: The unfolding Malian crisis
Aug 18, 2020 - Mali has been gripped for months by a political crisis that has sparked the country's worst unrest in...
Sahel: Fears of a soldiers’ mutiny in Mali as political crisis lingers
Bamako, Aug 18, 2020 - Gunfire broke out at a key army base near Mali's capital Bamako on Tuesday, officials and...
Mali: How Mali security services sabotaged peace
Aug 14, 2020 - United Nations experts have accused senior army and intelligence officials in Mali of deliberately...
Mali security forces used excessive force against protesters
Sahel: Chad’s dictator Idriss Deby gets a new title: “Maréchal du Tchad”
Mali’s new Constitutional Court president
Mali braces for more political turmoil, as calls for protests build up
