Mali vows to defy UN call for peacekeepers to investigate abuses | Armed Groups News
The UN Security Council has extended a nine-year-old UN peacekeeping operation, known as MINUSMA, for another 12 months. Mali says
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Russia’s Wagner group in Mali spurs refugee spike in Mauritania | Features
M’bera, Mauritania – Finally, the day came when Ag could not handle it any more. He and his neighbours in
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More than 100 civilians killed in Mali attacks: Gov’t | Al-Qaeda News
Government says 132 people killed as armed group attacks villages in in Mali’s central Mopti region. More than 100 civilians
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ISIL-affiliate gains ground in the Sahel as massacres mount | News
ISIL-affiliated fighters, whose power was once thought to be waning in the Sahel, have expanded their reach recently, marking their
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Forty fighters ‘neutralised’ in drone strikes in Niger | Conflict News
The gunmen were travelling on motorcycles near Niger’s border with Burkina Faso, France’s military says. French drone strikes have killed
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War-fuelled food crisis to add to ‘staggering’ number displaced | Refugees News
UN refugee chief says more than 100 million people around the world are displaced as a result of war, persecution
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France says it has captured Islamic State bigwig in Mali | News
Oumeya Ould Albakaye, Islamic State in Greater Sahara’s chief in two provinces of Mali and Burkina Faso was captured in
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Eleven military policemen killed in northern Burkina Faso | Armed Groups News
The landlocked country has now replaced Mali, birthplace of the conflict in the Sahel, as the epicentre of the crisis.
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ECOWAS unhappy with Mali’s 24-month transition decision | Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions News
Heads of state from ECOWAS member countries have agreed not to lift sanctions against Mali unless the government proposes a
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Mali military promises return to civilian rule in March 2024 | Military News
Generals hope new offer will lead to lifting of sanctions were imposed after they reneged on an earlier promise to
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