First Independent Mena Newspaper
The UK government has announced dozens of new sanctions against Russia, targeting three private mercenary groups in Africa, linked to the Kremlin, and eleven people involved in the Ukraine war and associated with a nerve agent attack on British soil. “Today’s action disrupts the supply of vital equipment for Putin’s war machine and bears down […]
Sudan, South Sudan, Mali, Palestine and Haiti are rated among the most vulnerable areas globally where hundreds of thousands of people face or near famine, according to the latest six-monthly report by the United Nations’ food agencies. The Hunger Hotspot report, released on Thursday (31 October), warned that conflicts, economic instability, and climate shocks — […]
Tureg rebels have been using Ukrainian drones to target Mali and their Wagner allies in an insurgency that worsened ties between Bamako and Algiers, French paper Le Monde said. Malian forces have in recent months made inroads. Backed by Russian Wagner militias, they pushed Tuareg CSP rebels to seek refuge in southern Algeria. CSP, a […]
OCP Africa, a subsidiary of Morocco’s OCP Group, the world leader in plant nutrition solutions and phosphate-based fertilizers, will provide Malian farmers with customized solutions for the development of sustainable agriculture. Under an agreement signed Thursday with Mali’s ministry of agriculture, OCP Africa experts will conduct scientific studies and carry out tests in experimental plots […]
Spokesman for the Malian government denounced at the UN in the strongest terms Algeria’s destabilization role in the Sahel and Algiers interference in Mali’s domestic affairs. “We observe a grave interference in Mali’s domestic affairs… Mali is not an Algerian Wilaya (province),” said deputy prime minister and spokesman for the Malian government Abdoulaye Maïga in […]
Mali’s capital Bamako got a rude wake-up call Tuesday when Islamic militants launched a daring attack on a military training camp and the airport. It’s not every day the big city sees action like this, and it caught everyone off guard. The army scrambled to respond, eventually getting the upper hand. They managed to “neutralize” […]
Mali military rulers have sealed a military partnership with China amid heightened tension with the feckless neighboring Algerian regime, accused by Bamako of interfering in its domestic affairs and supporting terrorist groups threating its stability. Under an agreement signed in Beijing on the sidelines of the ongoing China-Africa cooperation forum, China will provide the West […]
Mali’s representative to the UN in New York has openly accused Algeria of backing terrorist and separatist groups, in response to an Algerian representative’s statement accusing Mali of using drones against civilians. Mali, backed by Russia, has been battling Tuareg Azawad rebels who have turned more towards Algeria in recent months. Speaking at a UN […]
Nigeria’s military and the junta in neighboring Niger have signed a new security agreement that aims to bolster regional stability and security a year after their normally positive bilateral ties soured after Niger’s coup in July 2023. Despite strained relations and their shared border being closed as part of the sanctions imposed by the Economic […]
The Russian private military company Bear Brigade has confirmed earlier reports by the French daily Le Monde that it had departed from Burkina Faso after arriving in the country in May. The 100-strong Bear Brigade, with links to Russia’s Defense Ministry, is withdrawing its fighters from the conflict-torn West African country due to Ukraine’s incursion […]