Burkina Faso: Two EU delegates declared persona non-grata
After severing diplomatic ties with France last June, Burkina Faso has shown further hostility to European institutions, declaring 2 delegates...
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Mali: Six ex-president associates tried for conspiracy
Six associates of former transitional president Bah N'Daw were tried for "attempted conspiracy" on the 14th of July. According...
Algeria and Mali restore diplomatic ties after year-long rift
Algeria and Mali have agreed to restore diplomatic relations, reopening their airspace and reinstating ambassadors more than a year after...
Russian Foreign Minister meets with Sahel states counterparts
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with his counterparts from the Alliance of Sahel States on the 9th of July....
Morocco: Ten arrested over thwarted terror plots
Moroccan authorities arrested 10 suspects on July 6th after the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), acting on intelligence from...
Sudan: RSF members sentenced to death in absentia
On July 12th, a court in Port Sudan, a city under army control, sentenced paramilitary leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo and...
Algeria and Mali move to restore diplomatic ties
Algeria and Mali seem to have reached a new agreement that should end fifteen months of diplomatic tension between the...
Morocco thwarts IS-linked attack plots, arrests 12 suspects
Moroccan authorities have arrested 12 people accused of belonging to a terrorist cell linked to the Islamic State’s Sahel affiliate...
Benin President visits Mauritania to discuss security cooperation
Benin President Romuald Wadagni was on an official visit to Mauritania on the 6th of July. According to RFI,...
Mali launches airstrikes as northern fighting intensifies
The Malian army launched airstrikes on the strategic town of Anefis on July 6 as fighting with the al-Qaeda-linked JNIM...
Jihadists and separatists carry out new wave of attacks in Mali
The Al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) and the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) have carried out new...
Insurgents attack military positions across Mali
Coordinated attacks by armed groups targeted military positions across northern and central Mali, with the Malian army saying it repelled...
Mali launches agency to regulate artisanal gold trade
Mali has created a new state body to regulate its expanding artisanal gold trade after identifying major discrepancies between officially...
Mali and Burkina Faso withdraw from International Criminal Court
Following Niger’s recent withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC), Mali and Burkina Faso, the second and third members...
Malian political opponents kidnapped by military junta
It has now been 2 months since lawyer and political opponent to the regime, Mountaga Tall, was taken by...
