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    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Historic Timbuktu endures weeks-long jihadist blockade

      Islamist group exploits security vacuum to prevent food and medicine from reaching Mali city

      Sankore mosque in Timbuktu
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Europe Express
      Crisis and coups as EU ministers discuss west Africa Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Should EU countries ignore debt limits to splurge on climate investments?

      Soldiers of the Republican Guard stand on their armed pick-up in a street in Libreville, Gabon
    • Monday, 17 July, 2023
      News in-depthU.S. Army
      Typo leaks millions of US military emails to Mali web operator

      Common spelling error has misdirected sensitive Pentagon messages to a company running Mali’s internet domain

      Montage of a leaked email and US army chief of staff General James McConville
    • Friday, 23 June, 2023
      Mali voters pass constitutional reform to enable return to democracy

      ‘Yes’ campaign wins referendum amid accusations of kidnapping and row over UN peacekeepers

      A Malian woman casts her vote in the referendum on a new constitution for the country
    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      Burkina Faso
      Burkina Faso calls Russia an ally amid fight against Sahel insurgents

      Interim leader Ibrahim Traoré insists Wagner Group is not engaged in fighting Islamic terror threat

      Ibrahim Traoré, Burkino Faso’s interim leader
    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      FT SeriesRussia in Africa
      How Russia’s propaganda machine is reshaping the African narrative

      Moscow taps into continent’s frustrations and historic solidarity with Soviet Union to spread its version of events

      Central African Republic troops drive past a Russian flag at a Bangui military parade
    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      African politics
      Mali pardons detained Ivorian soldiers

      Gesture by Assimi Goïta resolves dispute amid threats of sanctions being imposed by Ecowas bloc

    • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Bamako Encounters photography festival pulsates with revolutionary spirit

      The Malian biennale showcases artists from the African continent and diaspora at a precarious time for the country

    • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
      The Big Read
      Niger: the west’s bulwark against jihadis and Russian influence in Africa

      The country is emerging as a critical ally in a neighbourhood of failing states

      Niger National Guard at the entrance of Tillabéri region
    • Wednesday, 23 February, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      A brewing catastrophe in the Sahel

      Mali’s use of Russian mercenaries complicates an already dangerous situation

      An armed French soldier on patrol in the streets of Gao
    • Thursday, 17 February, 2022
      France to refocus anti-terror campaign as it leaves Mali

      European forces will shift support to Niger and Sahel’s coastal states after being pushed out of west African country

      Emmanuel Macron is flanked by Ghana’s president Nana Akufo-Addo, right, and Senegal’s president Macky Sall
    • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
      French politics
      Mali coup forces France to reorganise anti-terror operations in west Africa

      Paris wants to redeploy forces to other Sahel countries as relations with Bamako deteriorate

      A French soldier on patrol in Gao, Mali, in December
    • Tuesday, 1 February, 2022
      Guinea-Bissau
      Attempted coup in Guinea-Bissau thwarted

      Heavy gunfire in capital marks latest instance of political instability in west Africa

      Umaro Sissoco Embaló, Guinea-Bissau president
    • Monday, 31 January, 2022
      Mali expels French ambassador over ‘outrageous remarks’

      Envoy given 72 hours to leave Bamako after Paris criticises ‘out of control’ ruling junta

      French soldiers patrol the streets of Timbuktu
    • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
      Denmark begins withdrawing special forces troops from Mali

      Withdrawal of troops from French-led counterterror mission comes as Bamako reinforces Russian ties

      Malians protest against the sanctions imposed by Ecowas
    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
      Mali’s neighbours impose sanctions over election delay

      West African countries close borders to landlocked country at centre of jihadi insurgency in the Sahel

      Leaders from the Economic Community of West African States at the summit in Accra, Ghana, held to discuss the election delay proposed by Mali’s junta
    • Thursday, 23 December, 2021
      France and allies condemn deployment of Russia-linked mercenaries in Mali

      African nation’s government is battling Islamist militants who have killed thousands across the Sahel

      A French soldier mans a helicopter machine gun during a night mission in Gao, Mali
    • Wednesday, 22 December, 2021
      How France lost Mali: failure to quell jihadi threat opens door to Russia

      Anti-French sentiment in the Sahel and rising violence creates space for Wagner mercenary group

      French soldiers on patrol in Timbuktu in December
    • Sunday, 14 November, 2021
      News in-depthAfrica
      ‘Failure of democracy’: why are coups on the rise in Africa?

      As dissatisfaction with democratically elected leaders intensifies, militaries are extending their grip

      Montage with a chart
    • Wednesday, 6 October, 2021
      World
      Mali summons French ambassador in row over Russian security group

      Relations deteriorating between Paris and west African country at centre of Islamist insurgency

      A Malian soldier patrols the river bank in Konna
    • Thursday, 30 September, 2021
      Ivory Coast’s president warns against Russian security group’s involvement in Mali

      Alassane Ouattara says hiring Wagner is not the answer in fight against Islamist insurgents

    • Thursday, 16 September, 2021
      Isis
      France says it has killed leader of Islamic State in the Greater Sahara

      Jihadi group linked to some of the worst violence in Sahel region

      Soldiers from the French Army in Sahel
    • Thursday, 2 September, 2021
      David Pilling
      Africa has quietly become the epicentre of the Islamist threat

      As the world watches Afghanistan, groups such as al-Qaeda are eyeing the Sahel for expansion of its network

    • Friday, 20 August, 2021
      Burkina Faso
      Suspected jihadis kill 80 in latest Burkina Faso attack

      Tri-border region close to Mali and Niger is at the centre of a violent insurgency roiling the Sahel region

      Burkina Faso soldiers patrol aboard a pick-up truck on the road from Dori to the Goudebo refugee camp
    • Thursday, 10 June, 2021
      Northern Africa
      France to cut back military operations in Sahel

      Macron says forces will focus on fight against Islamists filling void left by regional governments

      French soldiers in Mali
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