Your English-language guide to Mali's news landscape — clear, credible and up to date.
Your English-language guide to Mali's news landscape — clear, credible and up to date.
Former Senegalese football star El-Hadji Diouf has been handed a one-year suspended prison sentence by the Dakar Magistrate’s Court for failing to meet his child support obligations. The ruling, delivered on May 12, 2026, follows a legal dispute over unpaid alimony for his daughter. Legal consequences and financial penalties The court also ordered the 45-year-old […]
The Dakar Urban Security unit has dismantled a sophisticated operation producing counterfeit visa approval letters—a critical document required by some foreign embassies before issuing visas. A suspect, described by investigators as a key figure in a Chinese-linked smuggling network, was apprehended following a weeks-long surveillance operation in Senegal’s capital. Inside the fake visa approval letter […]
The awakening was brutal for the Malian people. On Saturday, April 25, a shockwave swept across the country from Gao to Bamako, marking what many analysts are already calling an “irreversible turning point” in the region’s security collapse. A Night of Chaos: Mali Under Fire Attacks of unprecedented scale and coordination simultaneously targeted several key […]
Three names—Aisha, Juliana, and Hauwa—echo the untold stories of women whose lives were shattered by Boko Haram’s reign of terror in Nigeria. Their experiences, rarely heard amid headlines of mass abductions, reveal the brutal reality of captivity, forced marriages, and the enduring scars left behind. For Aisha, April 2014 began like any other evening in […]
Roland-Garros Tribunes désertées au soleil, malaise d’une ramasseuse de balle et joueurs qui tentent de “survivre” : gros coup de chaud à Roland-Garros RTL.fr – Sport
This discussion is presented by the CERI research group Africa: citizenship, violence and politics and the Africa Programme. Examining the JNIM and the strategic hurdles of militant growth Since its emergence in 2017, the Al-Qaeda affiliate known as Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) has solidified its position as a dominant armed force within the central […]
Six mothers lost their lives in a tragic mining collapse this past January in Kéniéty, a district of Kéniéba. Behind this devastating loss lies a harsh truth: extreme poverty that forces women into daily life-or-death gambles for survival. Why women risk everything in Mali’s gold mines The perilous conditions women endure on these unstable gold-panning […]
Click to expand Image Une télévision montre le signal coupé de la chaîne France 24, quelques heures après que le gouvernement militaire du Burkina Faso ait suspendu la chaîne, le 27 mars 2023. © 2023 Olympia de Maismont/AFP via Getty Images Burkina Faso’s transitional military government has taken further steps to restrict information freedom, ordering […]
