[Agenzia Fides] Vatican City -- The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the metropolitan archdiocese of Bamako, Mali, presented by His Eminence Cardinal Jean Zerbo.

[ISS] Stability in West Africa requires that both organisations take pragmatic and flexible approaches, and learn from past mistakes.

[Premium Times] Lovers of traditional African music, especially kora music, will sorely miss him.

[RFI] Malian music star Toumani Diabate passed away after a short illness, his family announced over the weekend. Music lovers across the planet paid tribute to a master instrumentalist who helped share Mali's rich traditions with the world.

[Independent (Kampala)] Governments that allocate substantial resources to the military can inadvertently increase the political power of the military.

[AI London] Malian authorities must immediately release Youssouf Daba Diawara and 11 other opposition politicians who remain arbitrarily detained solely for exercise of their human rights amid escalating crackdown on dissent, said Amnesty Internation...

[allAfrica] Dakar -- "I am telling you here, there will be a renegotiation of contracts relating to natural resources," this is one of the strong announcements that the President of the Republic of Senegal, HE Bassirou Diomaye Faye, made during his i...

[ISS] Broad political consensus is needed for the country to benefit from some promising decisions made at the recent dialogue.

[RFI] Mali's ruling junta has announced it will allow political parties and political associations to resume their activities, which it had suspended in the spring.

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[Accra Times] As a peace envoy supported by Togolese President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe, Faye is seen as possibly the best among heads of state for a mission to try to woo the three nations back to the fold of regional cooperation

[MFWA] A month after his abduction on June 8, 2024, by some unidentified men in plain clothes, Malian journalist, Yeri Bocoum, remains unaccounted for. Bocoum, who runs a Facebook news page called Yeri Bocoum Communication (YBC), covered a banned opp...

[JusticeInfo.net] In their judgement against former Malian Jihadist Abdoulaziz Al-Hassan, the three judges of the International Criminal Court never fully agreed. And when two of them agreed, it wasn't for the same reason. To many, it may look as an ...

[Daily Trust] The President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Commission, Dr Omar Alieu Touray, has lamented that despite several efforts being made by the regional bloc to bring Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger back to the fold,...

[RFI] An attack blamed on jihadists in central Mali killed more than 20 civilians on Monday, two local officials said, in the latest killings in the troubled Sahel region.

[Premium Times] Mr Asante said he was aware that the parliament had been engaging high-level officials of those states through its members to ensure their return to ECOWAS.

[CPJ] Dakar -- Malian authorities should urgently investigate the disappearance of journalist Yeri Bocoum and account for his whereabouts, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday.

[AI London] Reacting to the decision of the Trial Chamber X of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to convict Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz for some of the war crimes and crimes against humanity he was accused of having committed in Timbuktu, Mali, Sam...

[DW] Al Hassan Mahmoud was convicted of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during Islamist militants' one-year rule over Timbuktu in 2012. His crimes against women were particularly marked.

[HRW] Nairobi -- Authorities Need to Investigate, Prosecute Grave Crimes Committed by All Sides

[VOA] The International Criminal Court on Wednesday convicted an al-Qaida-linked extremist for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Mali from 2012-2013.

[HRW] Release, Drop Charges Against 11 People Wrongfully Arrested