First Independent Mena Newspaper
French authorities on Tuesday expressed concern about the contingency of deploying paramilitaries of the private Russian company Wagner in Mali, warning that such a deployment could prompt the withdrawal of French troops, who have been fighting jihadist groups there for eight years. News surfaced that Bamako had been in talks with the Wagner company for […]
The Government of Mali has strongly condemned “the cowardly and barbaric attack” carried out by “unidentified armed individuals” on Saturday against a Moroccan commercial convoy in the town of Didieni, Kayes region, resulting in the death of two Moroccan nationals and the injury of others. The Malian foreign ministry issued on Monday this statement following […]
Moroccans and the region woke up Sunday to the abhorrent news of a cowardice ambush that took the lives of two Moroccan truck drivers and injured another in Mali on the way to the capital. The attack was perpetrated 300 kilometers away from Bamako by gunmen who escaped without stealing any goods from the Moroccan […]
Moussa Diawara, the former director of Mali’s State Security under Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, was arrested and charged with “complicity in kidnapping and abduction” in the disappearance of journalist Birama Touré. The former president’s son, Karim Keita, is also named in the case. This is a new twist in the case of the disappearance of journalist […]
Two Mauritanians kidnapped in Mali on July 18 along with three Chinese nationals were released on Tuesday, a source close to the Mauritanian government said. The five men were abducted during an attack on a road construction site some 55 km from the town of Kwala in southwestern Mali, not far from the Mauritanian border, […]
A man described as a “high-ranking fighter of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara” (EIGS) has been captured by French forces in Mali, in a joint Nigerien-French operation against the group’s militants. Dadi Ould Chouaib, also known as Abou Dardar, was arrested on June 11 in the flashpoint “tri-border” region between Niger, Mali and […]
The new Prime Minister of the Malian transition, Choguel Maïga, met Tuesday with members of the National Workers’ Union of Mali (UNTM), the country’s largest trade union, which has been making a series of demands for months. The case of the compressed workers of the former state enterprises, the harmonization of the index grids […]
The Algerian army will deploy in Mali where France is preparing a military base for the Algerian soldiers, says London-based consultancy & business intelligence center, Menas Associates, citing a reliable source and photographic evidence. The Algerians will be deployed at Hombori base, 247 km southwest of Gao, on the front line of the Sahel’s Three […]
Two weeks to the day after his second coup in nine months in mali, Colonel Assimi Goïta was sworn in this Monday, June 7, at the International Conference Center in Bamako as head of state before the Supreme Court. At a time when the Sahel remains more than ever in the grip of jihadist violence, […]
France has suspended joint military operations with Malian forces as a precautionary measure, the French Ministry of the Armed Forces said Thursday, June 3, adding that the decision was linked to the ongoing political transition in Mali and would be reassessed in the coming days. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the […]