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Analysis: Wagner Group ‘like a bull in a china shop’ in unstable parts of Africa, say experts
Western officials told the Guardian earlier this year that the Wagner mercenary group was the “thin end of the wedge” and a “Trojan horse” for a Russian effort to extend its influence covertly in (...)
After their high level meeting held in Accra, Ghana, on Sunday 9 January 2022, the Heads of State of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) hardened the tone against Mali. However, for the Malian government, as well as for many observers in the ECOWAS region, these sanctions are (...)
The country desperately lacks a social consensus regarding its future
The current situation in Mali is characterized by a certain degree of confusion. In June 2020, the Mouvement du 5 Juin-Rassemblement des Forces Patriotiques (M5-RFP) began demonstrating for an end to the reign of President (...)
In Mali, the seizure of power by the military on 18 August, 2020 opens a new page in a country which is experiencing an unprecedented crisis. The situation continues to deteriorate seriously.
The proportion of the population living below the poverty line reached 41.1% in 2019 and could (...)
Introduction by Roger Annis, Jan. 11, 2014
Last August, Mali held its first election since the military coup of March 2012 that overthrew its elected government.
The coup was followed by an invasion by France, in January 2013. Hundreds were killed in northern Mali by the foreign invaders and (...)
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has sketched the outline of the UN military occupation force that will take effective control of the country of Mali in the coming weeks in a presentation to the UN Security Council on March 26. See the two news reports below. In a significant departure from the (...)
Vancouver BC Feb. 27, 2013
Hello Toronto Star editor,
Olivia Ward writes in her column today :
“Civilians have suffered most in the conflict in which more than 430,000 people have been displaced, and more than 170,000 have fled to equally poor neighbouring countries. It’s the second of two (...)
Articles on the French-lead military intervention in Mali are often not classified in this section (“Mali”), but in others. They are listed below. To get to them, click on the title...
Many more articles are on the French page of our website: Articles sur l’intervention française au Mali (article (...)
Timbuktu: Revenge in the shadows in northern Mali
France 24, Feb. 22, 2013
The fabled city of Timbuktu, in north-western Mali, was occupied by armed Islamist groups for almost a year. At the end of January, French and Malian soldiers retook control of the city. Since then, its people have (...)
In the heart of Timbuktu’s once bustling market, shop after shop stands empty and abandoned. Since French troops expelled al-Qaeda from this ancient city in northern Mali, almost every business owned by an Arab has been stormed and looted.
Just as Europe’s liberation from the Nazis was followed (...)
Reports of abuses by Islamists in northern Mali were widespread. But two human rights groups say the army also committed executions and rights violations.
More than a dozen civilians rounded up and executed. Bullet-riddled bodies dumped into a well. Reports of abuses by the violent Islamists (...)
The Malian army has committed serious human rights breaches plus violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) during the ongoing conflict against armed groups in the country, including extrajudicial executions of civilians, according to evidence gathered by Amnesty International during a (...)
Also, below, ‘special forces’ from U.S., Britain, Canada pouring into Mali and neighbouring countries
January 29, 2013–The enclosed report from the FRANCE 24 news network provides what is undoubtedly only a glimpse of the human rights violations that the French/Mali army invasion has unleashed (...)
FIDH is very alarmed by the increasing number of summary executions and other human rights violations committed by Malian soldiers in the context of the counter-attack led by the French and Malian armies against the Jihadists, and calls for the immediate establishment of an independent (...)
BEFORE the recent French intervention in Mali began, 412,000 people had already left their homes in the country’s north, fleeing torture, summary executions, recruitment of child soldiers and sexual violence against women at the hands of fundamentalist militants. Late last year, in Algeria and (...)
Surprise! The Canadian government has decided to extend its modest engagement (to date) in the French-led war in Mali. A news report tells of Canada’s decision to continue its air transport assistance to the French invaders beyond the “one week” it initially announced .
CBC News has published an (...)
It was always probable that French military intervention in Mali would have explosive consequences in other parts of the region. Even so, it is surprising that a splinter group from al-Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) should have been able to react so quickly by seizing hostages at the gas (...)
Today’s announcement that the International Criminal Court (ICC) will open an investigation into crimes under international law committed over the past year of conflict in Mali is a crucial step towards justice for the victims, Amnesty International said.
ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s (...)
How has the situation evolved in the North of Mali these past few months?
Moctar Mariko – The situation in the North of Mali remains practically unchanged for us. From a humanitarian perspective, I’ve just been informed that since the establishment of the corridor many families in the North of (...)
Sarah Knopp provides background on the conflict gripping a West African country.
THE CRISIS in Mali has shown up sporadically in the Western media over the past six months, but mainly in the form of images of “religious terrorism”—attacks on mosques and religious sites in Northern Mali, violence (...)
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