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April 2021 Tensions continued to mount among Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt ahead of Addis Ababa’s planned second unilateral filling of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in coming months. In apparent warning to Addis Ababa and preparation for possible escalation of inter-state tensions, Sudan and Egypt 31 March-5 April held second joint military exercise since Nov 2020. New round of talks among Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on filling and operation of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on Blue Nile ...

JAY-Z has completed the sale of his streaming service Tidal to Jack Dorsey's financial services company, Square.

International Rescue Committee is now hiring for the position of Program Development and Grants Coordinator in Bamako. Apply today.

This story was first published on New Frame. Sahel Sounds is a portal into alternate realities. The small independent label has made music from the greater West African Sahel region accessible over the past decade, including from remote desert areas in Mali, Niger and Mauritania.  Founder Christopher Kirkley runs Sahel Sounds from Portland, Oregon, in the United States and the project encompasses writing, archives, research, film and a record label. Sahel Sounds shines a spotlight on previousl...

Program Development and Grants Coordinator You are here About the organization Founded in 1933, the International Rescue Committee is a leading non-sectarian non-profit organization providing emergency relief, protection, rehabilitation assistance, resettlement services and advocacy for refugees and victims of oppression or violent conflict. The IRC is committed to freedom, human dignity and self-reliance. This committment is reflected in well-planned global emergency relief, rehabilitation, re...

Story highlights Mali has been battling a brutal jihadist insurgency since 2012 when Islamist fighters first emerged during a rebellion by ethnic Tuareg separatists in the north Three United Nations peacekeepers were on Sunday seriously injured in a rocket attack on a military base in the north of the conflict-ridden Sahel state, UN and local officials said. Olivier Salgado, the spokesman for the UNs MINUSMA mission in Mali, said the attack took place on a base in Tessalit -- in the north -- wh...

"The situation is currently calm and under control," he added. Mali has been battling a brutal jihadist insurgency since 2012, when Islamist fighters first emerged during a rebellion by ethnic Tuareg separatists in the north. France intervened to crush the rebellion, but the jihadists scattered and regrouped, taking their campaign into central Mali in 2015 and then into neighbouring Niger and Burkina Faso. First established in 2013, the 13,000-strong MINUSMA has suffered one of the highest de...

Three UN peacekeepers injured in northern Mali | Mali News The country’s UN peacekeeping mission said it was the headquarters of Malian, French and UN troops in Tessalit. Three United Nations peacekeepers have been seriously injured in a rocket attack on a military base in northern Mali, according to UN and local officials. Olivier Salgado, a spokesman for the UN peacekeeping mission in the West African country, said Sunday’s attack took place at a Tessalite base that includes Malian soldie...

Three United Nations peacekeepers have been seriously wounded in a rocket attack on a military base in northern Mali, UN and local officials said. Olivier Salgado, the spokesman for the UN peacekeeping mission in the West African country, MINUSMA, said Sunday’s attack took place on a base in Tessalit, which houses Malian soldiers, UN peacekeepers and French troops, AFP news agency reported. Three peacekeepers were “gravely wounded” in the attack, he added. A Tessalit tribal leader, who de...

The Killing Of Chads President Is A Blow In Battle Against Jihad Paris has considered Chads army to be the most solid, experienced and tenacious in the region. But the death of Idriss Déby could change the dynamics in the French-backed fight against jihadists in the Sahel region of Africa. The strategists of Operation Barkhane could not have imagined worse news. The announcement Tuesday of Chadian President Idriss Débys death as a result of his wounds "on the battlefield" has stunned the Fren...