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Senegalese authorities on Saturday positioned new gendarmerie units near the country’s eastern border, to address growing ...
Ulf Laessing, head of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Sahel program and based in Bamako, told PassBlue: “The US seems to be ...
Qaeda, primarily active in Mali and Burkina Faso, has acquired the capacity to arm low-cost devices. This recent expertise ...
More than 40 Malian soldiers were killed and one of the country’s military bases was taken over in early June 2025 in a major attack by an al-Qaeda linked group, Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin ...
The Easter period usually offers a rare respite in Gedeb, in Ethiopia's deeply troubled north, but on April 17 death rained ...
The Malian Armed Forces (FAMA) have taken delivery of a batch of CS/VP14 armoured personnel carriers (APCs) from China’s Norinco, with more apparently on the way. Images shared on social media showed ...
The Russia-backed Wagner Group said Friday it is leaving Mali after more than three and a half years of fighting Islamic extremists and insurgents in the country. Despite Wagner's announcement ...
Mali's Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces, Maj Gen Oumar Diarra salutes as he inspects the military during an ...