Mali’s opposition leader Soumaïla Cissé was sworn in on Saturday as a candidate for the July 29 presidential election by thousands of his supporters in a stadium in capital Bamako. The former minister of finance who lost against the current president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in 2013, warned against fraud in upcoming polls. “Let us be […]
The G5 Sahel counter-terrorist force is “ready” to take action, Nigerien Defense Minister Kalla Moutari said on Sunday. Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger agreed in 2017 to set up the G5 Sahel counter-terrorist force. The regional force, which aims to fight armed extremist groups that have carried out deadly attacks across the region, […]
Mauritania will supply electricity to Mali up to 40 to 50 megawatts. This decision is the major result of a short visit Malian Prime Minister, Soumeylou Boubèye Maiga, paid to Nouakchott, on Monday. Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga, Malian Prime Minister, led a large delegation of his government, made a visit of a few hours in Mauritania […]
Mali’s incumbent President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta was sworn in this weekend as a presidential candidate by a coalition of nearly 70 parties in the capital of the West African war-torn nation. The incumbent President will run for a second term in office in an election on July 29. President of the coalition Bokary Tréta said […]
The commander-in-chief of Barkhane Operation, General Bruno Guibert, has deplored the delay in fulfilling the international community’s pledges to support the G5-Sahel, set up to fight terrorist groups swarming in the region. The three-star General Bruno Guilbert who is in command of Barkhane since July 2017 expressed, in an interview with French magazine l’Express, deep […]
A senior United Nations official Wednesday urged Malian parties to implement 2015 peace agreement, insisting that it is time to move from promises to actions. While Malians must ensure the successful holding of elections this year, their priority should be the implementation of the 2015 peace agreement, Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General […]
French troops in Mali, on Thursday, killed about 30 Islamist insurgents during a gun battle near the border with Niger, France’s Barkhane mission said in a statement. According to Colonel Patrik Steiger, soldiers from Barkhane force and Malian troops were on a reconnaissance mission 90 km (56 miles) south of Menaka on Sunday when they […]
The Canadian government will send troops, helicopters and medical staff, to terrorism-stricken Mali later this year as part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission, a senior Canadian government source said. The helicopters presumably would replace a German contingent, which has been conducting transport and medical evacuation missions in the West African nation. Germany’s Bundeswehr has […]
Togo’s President and chair of the regional ECOWAS bloc, Faure Gnassingbe, and Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou on Monday vowed to help Burkina Faso fight and defeat militant groups. The presidents of neighboring Niger and Togo traveled to Burkina Faso on Tuesday (March 6) to assess the aftermath of the terror attacks, which killed 8 people […]
The Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group, Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), has claimed responsibility for Friday’s deadly attacks on the army headquarters and French embassy in Burkina Faso. In a message released by the militant group through Mauritanian news agency, Alakhbar, the attacks were carried out in response to the killing of one of JNIM’s leaders, […]
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