By MD Staff Violence in North and West Africa is increasingly targeting civilian and border regions as today’s conflicts involve non-state actors with diverging agendas, according…
Yabiladi The US Department of State announced, Monday, in a press release that its Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs is expected to tour Africa from…
Washington PostBy Dan Lamothe and Danielle Paquette The defense secretary believes European allies can lend more help, a senior Pentagon official said. The Pentagon is facing…
By: AFP Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta(L), the President of Mali, Mahamadou Issoufou(2ndL), the President of Niger, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré(C), the President of Burkina Faso, Idriss Déby(2ndR), the…
The Africa ReportBy Bakary Sambe Military solutions have clearly not been successful in the fight against terrorism in the Sahel. The lessons of America’s war in Afghanistan should…
GzeroGabrielle Debinski Last week, Mali, an arid desert country in Western Africa with a predominantly Muslim population of 19 million, was struck by one of the…
By RFI AFP/PHILIPPE DESMAZES The Islamic State armed group has claimed responsibility for two attacks in north-eastern Mali near Menaka region. The first raid on a…
Strategy Page Mali continues to be the most dangerous UN peacekeeping operation with over 200 dead so far. This is largely due to northern Mali, where…