Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger — insurgencies and regional responses.
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Mali's armed forces and their Russian backers have utilised some "apparent indiscriminate" drone strikes and other abuses as part of an ramped-up offensive against insurgents in recent months that has killed scores of civilians. Drone strikes and resulting civilian casualties…
The rivalry between al-Qaeda’s JNIM and Islamic State Sahel Province has grown into a regional war that, according to Africanews, now reaches western Niger and northwestern Nigeria. For US readers, it threatens gold and uranium supply chains, counter-terrorism policy and…
African Union Should Act to Prevent Further Atrocities (Nairobi) – Malian armed forces and their allies have since July 2026 responded to mounting attacks by Islamist and separatist armed groups with abusive counterinsurgency operations in central and northern Mali, Human Rights Watch…
More than 1,500 Russian defense ministry-controlled Africa Corps troops have been deployed to seven countries primarily in Africa, as Moscow increases its presence on the mineral-rich continent. The Africa Corps is a new iteration of the Wagner private military program, which…
Horn of Africa · Explainer Djibouti military bases belong to five foreign powers: the United States, China, France, Japan and Italy. This small country of about 1.1 million people sits at the southern gate of the Red Sea, the sea route to…
Malian armed forces and their allies have since July 2026 responded to mounting attacks by Islamist and separatist armed groups with abusive counterinsurgency operations in central and northern Mali, Human Rights Watch said today. The Al-Qaeda-linked Group for the Support of…
A Catholic priest abducted by gunmen in Benue State, Rev. Fr. John Inalegwu Otache, has reportedly regained his freedom following a rescue operation involving security operatives and local vigilantes. Otache, the Parish Priest of St. Margaret’s Parish, Ajegbe-Awume, in Ohimini…
ISSP’s beginnings can be traced to former al-Qaeda affiliated groups that operated in Algeria, Libya, and Mali in the early and mid-2010s, specifically the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), which was connected to al-Qaeda in Islamic…
Sahel Crisis: Mali’s Counteroffensive, Russian Support, and the Islamist Threat Murad Makhmudov, Noriko Watanabe, and Lee Jay Walker RUSSIA SUPPORTS MALI’S COUNTEROFFENSIVE IN THE NORTH BEYOND BURKINA FASO, MALI, AND NIGER – CONCERN IS GROWING PLEASE JOIN ON FACEBOOK International News…
Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali have resumed formal discussions with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), agreeing to work towards establishing a framework for cooperation despite their withdrawal from the regional bloc. The three Sahel countries officially left…