NIAMEY: Niger’s mutinous soldiers closed the country’s airspace and accused foreign powers of preparing an attack, as the junta defied a deadline to reinstate the ousted president. State television announced the move Sunday night, hours before the deadline set by West African regional bloc ECOWAS, which
WEST AFRICA: West Africa recorded over 1,800 terrorist attacks in the first six months of the year resulting in nearly 4,600 deaths with dire humanitarian consequences, and a top regional official has said that’s just "a snippet of the horrendous impact of insecurity." Omar Touray told
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council unanimously voted to end a decade-long peacekeeping mission in Mali after the West African country's military junta abruptly asked the 13,000-strong force to leave - a move the United States said was engineered by Russia's Wagner mercenary group. The
NEW YORK: A vote by the Security Council to end a UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, at Mali's own request, was postponed to later this week due to ongoing talks, diplomatic sources said. Mali's Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop took the world by surprise on June 16
New York: Mali's foreign minister called for the UN Security Council to withdraw the peacekeeping mission in his country "without delay," denouncing its "failure" to respond to security challenges. The country's military rulers have increasingly imposed operational restrictions on peacekeepers and also broke Mali's longstanding alliance
Rome: Two UN agencies warned Monday of rising food emergencies including starvation in Sudan due to the outbreak of war and in Haiti, Burkina Faso and Mali due to restricted movements of people and goods. The four countries join Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen
Bamako: Mali's interim military government has rejected a United Nations human rights office report on the alleged execution of at least 500 people by Malian soldiers and unidentified foreign fighters during an operation last year. The ruling junta was responding to a report released after a
Dakar: The Malian army and foreign fighters executed at least 500 people during an anti-militant operation in Mali in March 2022, according to a much-awaited UN report released on Friday. The figures by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) amount to the worst atrocity
Bamako, Mali: Ten civilians and three soldiers were killed and 88 jihadists “neutralized” in multiple incidents across Mali, the government said, in a wave of bloodshed it described as a resurgence of “terrorist incidents.” Early Saturday morning, suspected jihadists attacked the Sevare airport area in the
Mali: In a report presented to the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Mali's ruling junta to "accelerate" the pace of the handover, in order to return power to elected civilians by early 2024 as promised. Guterres notes "progress" made in