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The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday to immediately end its peacekeeping mission in Mali as demanded by the country’s military junta, which has brought in mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group to help fight an Islamic insurgency. Mali, a landlocked country in West Africa, has grappled with the insurgency for over a decade. It has seen its relations with the international community become strained in part because the ruling junta brought in the Wagner mercenaries.

Photojournalist Pascal Maitre, a specialist in Africa, paints a portrait of a now-endangered ancestral way of life.

Une vue des conférenciers Telles étaient l’une des grandes recommandations qui allaient et revenaient lors de la conférence-débat organisée par l’Association Sammodi Koro (ASK) de la Commune rurale de Diafarabé. Une initiative de Bara Bah, président de l’Association et animée par Dr. Ely Dicko et Bourama Cissé avant-hier à la Maison de la Presse. Les forces armées maliennes et leurs partenaires militaires n’ont pas pu vaincre le terrorisme au centre depuis un certain moment. « Ils ne pourront pas », ont confirmé les conférencie...

DER SPIEGEL Suche öffnen France’s War in West Africa “People Collected Severed Arms, Legs and Heads” France initially deployed its military to Mali to hunt down jihadists. But reporting by DER SPIEGEL shows that its soldiers have repeatedly killed civilians there. Is the country turning into France’s Afghanistan? 09.06.2021, 16.23 Uhr French troops in Mali Foto: Finbarr O'Reilly / The New York Times / Redux / laif They had come to celebrate. Around 100 people were gathered on the outskirts of the village of Bounti in Mali, West Africa, for a wedding in January. Some ...

Mali's Assimi Goita: special ops commander turned strongman AFP 1 hr ago AFP © ANNIE RISEMBERG Once a relative unknown, Goita burst onto the political stage on August 18 when he launched a coup against elected president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita Colonel Assimi Goita, who led a coup in Mali last year, is set to be sworn in as president Monday after a second military power grab in the war-torn Sahel state. Last month, soldiers detained the president and prime minister of an interim government installed in the wake of a coup in August, provoking diplomatic uproar. The military ...