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Tension is mounting between Assimi Goïta’s junta and the former Azawad rebellion (©Jeune Afrique montage: Malian presidency; Souleymane Ag Anara/AFP)

Broken agreement

Premium badgeMali: Why northern rebels have taken up arms… again

In northern Mali, clashes have resumed between the army and former independence rebels.

On the street in Timbuktu, Mali, in happier times. (Wikimedia Commons CC 2.0/Emilio Labrador)

Not Again

Premium badgeIn Mali, Timbuktu grapples with resurgent jihadist threat Timbuktu, the city of 333 saints has been under jihadist blockade for a month, as residents struggle to live, and eat.
© Mark Bristow, CEO of Barrick Gold Co., speaks during the Investing in African Mining Indaba 2023 conference in Cape Town, South Africa, February 8, 2023. REUTERS/Shelley Christians

lack of lustre

Premium badgeExperts wary of Mali’s new mining code despite Barrick Gold’s involvement Barrick Gold Corporation – and its South African chief Mark Bristow – are closely following legislative developments, and their potential impact on th...
An Air France Airbus A320 departing from Paris’ Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, October 27, 2015.

sunset tour

Premium badgeMali, Burkina, Niger… The end of a golden age for Air France? By leaving Bamako in a hurry, the French airline has incurred the wrath of the local authorities. With services to several African destinations suspen...

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Tension is mounting between Assimi Goïta’s junta and the former Azawad rebellion (©Jeune Afrique montage: Malian presidency; Souleymane Ag Anara/AFP)

Broken agreement

Premium badgeMali: Why northern rebels have taken up arms… again In northern Mali, clashes have resumed between the army and former independence rebels.
On the street in Timbuktu, Mali, in happier times. (Wikimedia Commons CC 2.0/Emilio Labrador)

Not Again

Premium badgeIn Mali, Timbuktu grapples with resurgent jihadist threat Timbuktu, the city of 333 saints has been under jihadist blockade for a month, as residents struggle to live, and eat.
© Mark Bristow, CEO of Barrick Gold Co., speaks during the Investing in African Mining Indaba 2023 conference in Cape Town, South Africa, February 8, 2023. REUTERS/Shelley Christians

lack of lustre

Premium badgeExperts wary of Mali’s new mining code despite Barrick Gold’s involvement Barrick Gold Corporation – and its South African chief Mark Bristow – are closely following legislative developments, and their potential impact on th...

Mali top stories

Tension is mounting between Assimi Goïta’s junta and the former Azawad rebellion (©Jeune Afrique montage: Malian presidency; Souleymane Ag Anara/AFP)

Broken agreement

Premium badgeMali: Why northern rebels have taken up arms… again In northern Mali, clashes have resumed between the army and former independence rebels.
On the street in Timbuktu, Mali, in happier times. (Wikimedia Commons CC 2.0/Emilio Labrador)

Not Again

Premium badgeIn Mali, Timbuktu grapples with resurgent jihadist threat Timbuktu, the city of 333 saints has been under jihadist blockade for a month, as residents struggle to live, and eat.
© Mark Bristow, CEO of Barrick Gold Co., speaks during the Investing in African Mining Indaba 2023 conference in Cape Town, South Africa, February 8, 2023. REUTERS/Shelley Christians

lack of lustre

Premium badgeExperts wary of Mali’s new mining code despite Barrick Gold’s involvement Barrick Gold Corporation – and its South African chief Mark Bristow – are closely following legislative developments, and their potential impact on th...

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abracadabra

The ‘disappearance’ of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger: A French paradox In his annual address to the French ambassadors’ conference, the French President reiterated his conviction that three African states would have disap...
Colonel Sadiba Koulibaly (L) and Colonel Mamady Doumbouya (R), coup leaders in Guinea. (©JA Montage: John Wessels/AFP/All rights reserved)

trend setting

Premium badgeCoups in Francophone Africa in past three years – a timeline Eight governments have been overthrown in Francophone African countries in the past three years.

mercenary life

Premium badgeWith Prigozhin gone, what will become of Wagner in Africa? With the Kremlin’s confirmation of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death, there’s speculation about the future of the group he played a part in establishing. Is a...
Yevgeny Prigozhin, 25 May 2023. (AFP/Concord Group)

What’s next?

Premium badgeThe myth of Wagner in Africa Following the Wagner mutiny that shook President Vladimir Putin in June, and the recent coup in Niger, speculation about the activities of the private...
NIger Demonstration in support of the coup plotters in Niamey, 30 July 2023. © AFP

uncommitted

Premium badgeMorocco remains silent over Niger coup Since the coup erupted in Niger, Morocco has been reserved in its stance, in sharp contrast with ECOWAS and several AU members’ decisive action.
© Chief of Russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin at a cemetery for fallen PMC Wagner fighters in the settlement of Goryachiy Klyuch in the southern Russian Krasnodar region on 6 April 2023 – (Photo by Handout / TELEGRAM/ @concordgroup_official / AFP)

'Disloyalty equals death'

Wagner chief Prigozhin presumed dead in plane crash: Russian officials The mercenary group maintains a strong military presence in Africa, where it has partnered with several nations, including Mali and CAR.