The Latest Breaking News from Mali

Just months after the UN security council greenlighted its peacekeepers' exit from Mali, a new report by the Stimson Centre warns of a "crisis of consent" between the body and the countries relying on its help. Meanwhile, France's announcement that it will bring some 1500 counterterrorism troops back from Niger…

Mali's military government has announced a delay in presidential elections scheduled for February that would return the country to civilian rule.

The military rulers had been demanding the exit of envoy and troops after Macron refused to recognise the July coup.

The UN chief has called it an epidemic of coups. In Africa, since 2020, military officers have seized power, or attempted to do so, in numerous sub-Saharan countries. Just in the last two and a half months, soldiers in Gabon announced a takeover of power, while in Niger, members of…

City shelled as tens of thousands of people remain almost completely cut off from world and UN peacekeepers withdraw.

Mali’s military junta is struggling to fight growing violence in the West African nation's hard-hit northern region

The support for military takeovers is growing across Africa, and civilian governments are to blame, say analysts.

One of the armed groups from northern Mali has called for a full scale war against the junta. This despite attempts at dialogue and fears for the peace deal between the ex-rebels and government forces.

In recent weeks, Russia’s Deputy Defence Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and General Andrei Averyanov from the GRU military intelligence agency have made several trips to Africa. The two are increasingly seen as the main organisers of the post-Prigozhin era of Russian relationships with Africa following the Wagner Group chief’s demise in…