[VOA] Gao, Mali/Washington -- France's recent decision to close some of its military bases and reduce the number of its troops in Mali has sparked mixed reaction from the local population.

[New Frame] The Senegalese curator reflects on her extensive journey as a pioneer Black woman in contemporary African art and curating as well as the exhibitions closest to her heart.

[RFI] Five civilians, four soldiers and 40 armed attackers were killed on Sunday in a clash in Niger's southwest region near the border with Mali, according to a statement from the authorities in Niger's capital, Niamey.

[RFI] At the end of a virtual G5 Sahel meeting on Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France would start closing three military bases in northern Mali by year-end, as the jihadist threat in the Sahel begins to shift south and expo...

[UN News] Traditional arts and crafts are being used to build peace and dialogue in Mali thanks to the work of the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, MINUSMA.

[ISS] Uncontrolled artisanal gold mining in Kayes is damaging the environment and fuelling trafficking and local conflicts.

[RSF] An investigation by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) into Malian journalist Birama Touré's disappearance in 2016 points to the involvement of Karim Keïta, the son of former President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, who was ousted in a coup a year ago...

[RFI] An international arrest warrant has been issued for the son of Mali's former president over the disappearance of an investigative journalist in Bamako in 2016.

[RFI] France is to resume joint operations with the Malian Armed Forces, after suspending them early last month following Mali's second coup in less than a year. Lemine Ould Salem, a journalist specialising in the Sahel, says the French president's d...

[Agenzia Fides] Bamako -- Time passes, inexorable and cruel: 4 years and 5 months ago Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez, a Colombian nun from the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate, fell into the hands of the jihadists in Mali (se...

[Centre 4s] Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, the most exposed countries of the G5 Sahel to terrorism, have been facing repeated attacks since this year beginning. It is in this worrying context that the French president announced on 10 June, the "end of...

[New Times] President Paul Kagame on Sunday, July 4 received Ambassador Abdoulaye Diop, Mali's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation at Village Urugwiro.

[UN News] Rampant impunity for human rights violations in Mali is posing serious risks for the protection of civilians in the West African country, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday.

[OHCHR] Geneva -- There have been repeated attacks over the last six months by groups such as the Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), as well as violence across communal lines, all resulting...

[VOA] Berlin -- The United Nations said 12 German troops and a Belgian soldier serving in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali were wounded Friday in an attack in the country's restive north.

[Agenzia Fides] Bamako -- Fr. Léon Dougnon, parish priest of Our Lady of Lourdes in Ségué, kidnapped on June 21 on the road that connects Ségué to San, in the Mopti region, in central Mali (see Fides, 23/6/2021) has been released. According to i...

[ISS] Without a single prosecution, the illegal trade in artefacts is causing a catastrophic loss for the country.

[RFI] Local authorities in central Mali have confirmed that five Christians, traveling between Mopti and Ségou, have not reached their destination.

[RFI] A huge car bomb attack that injured several soldiers on Monday in the town of Gossi in central Mali was aimed at France's Barkhane force, local sources told RFI's sister station France 24.

[RFI] French forces in Mali have captured a man they describe as a "high-ranking fighter of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara". Dadi Ould Chouaib, also known as Abou Dardar, was arrested on 11 June in the "tri-border" region between Niger, Mali...

[IPS] New York -- The climate crisis is amplifying the effects of instability and violence in the world's poorest countries. Nowhere is this more visible than in Africa's Central Sahel region, where increasing temperature, floods, droughts and other ...