Three peacekeepers from Senegal were killed and five seriously injured after their convoy hit an improvised explosive device in central Mali, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the country and Senegal’s army said on Tuesday. Mali is struggling to stem an Islamist insurgency that took root after a 2012 coup and[Read More…]
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African Peacekeepers Quitting Mali
Peacekeepers from Cote d’Ivoire are among those quitting Mali just nine months into their role. In September 2021, at the United Nations, Mali’s Prime Minister, Choguel Kokalla Maiga, chided France for abandoning midair its campaign against the insurgency deploring the partial withdrawal of Barkhane force in his country, which has[Read More…]
Re: Claims Of President Barrow’s Humiliation In Mali Preposterous Political Propaganda
Press Release Ever since President Adama Barrow and a delegation of West African Statesmen returned from an ECOWAS Mediation Mission to Mali recently, erroneous claims emerged that the Gambian leader was terribly humiliated by his Malian colleague, interim President, Colonel Assimi Goïta. Contrary to this false claim trending across Social[Read More…]
Senegal’s Sall Says Compromise Still Possible With Mali On Election Dates
Senegal President Macky Sall said on Thursday he is still hopeful that a compromise can be reached with Mali’s ruling military junta on the timeline for restoring democratic rule. Mali’s military leaders, who overthrew the government in 2020, have been negotiating with West Africa’s regional bloc on how long they[Read More…]
Mali Crisis: Macky Sall Favours Negotiated Solution
As the ECOWAS mediator on Mali is due to make a fresh hop to Bamako, Senegalese President Macky Sall said he favours a negotiated solution out of the embargo currently imposed on Senegal’s neighbour by the regional grouping. By Oumar Dembélé The heads of state of the sub-regional organization want[Read More…]
Mali: Ecowas Set To Accept One-year Transition
On the sidelines of the last AU-EU summit in Brussels, Belgium, Nana Akufo-Addo, the current chairman of ECOWAS, maintained that the sub-regional organization was ready to accept a twelve-month transition in Mali. On December 24, 2021, the transitional authorities in Mali and Ecowas parted ways without agreement on the duration[Read More…]
French Journalist Expelled From Mali
Malian authorities have expelled Jeune Afrique’s special correspondent. Benjamin Roger arrived in Bamako during the night of February 6-7. He was arrested at his hotel on Monday by the Police. He was taken to the Judicial Investigation Brigade and then to the Air and Borders Police that notified him of[Read More…]
Nigeria To Work With ECOWAS To Assist Mali – Buhari
Despite the suspension of Mali from the activities of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) due to the military coup in that country, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to assist Mali in every way possible within the ambits of the ECOWAS. Receiving the special envoy from Mali’s[Read More…]
Senegal Arrests Two Suspected Foreign Jihadists
(JollofNews) – Senegalese authorities have arrested two suspected foreign jihadists in Dakar, including one who had been in contact with the mastermind of an attack on an Ivory Coast hotel a year ago. Police spokesman Henry Cisse said an operation in Dakar on Thursday had led to the arrest of[Read More…]
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