Issued on: 04/06/2022 – 18:27 West African leaders on Saturday failed to agree what action to take against military juntas in Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea, postponing a decision until July, said insiders at the meeting. A decision was put off until the next summit meeting for The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
Issued on: 17/05/2022 – 05:27 Mali’s military junta on Monday said it thwarted an attempted coup last week led by army officers and supported by an unnamed Western state. The statement read out on state television said a “small group of anti-progressive Malian officers and non-commissioned officers attempted a coup in the night of May
Issued on: 16/05/2022 – 01:21 Mali said Sunday it was withdrawing from a west African force fighting jihadists to protest its being rejected as head of the G5 regional group, which also includes Mauritania, Chad, Burkina and Niger. “The government of Mali is deciding to withdraw from all the organs and bodies of the G5 Sahel, including the
Issued on: 27/04/2022 – 22:08 Mali’s media regulator on Wednesday ordered the definitive suspension of FRANCE 24 television and RFI radio in the country, a month after the country’s ruling military junta accused the news organisations of reporting “false allegations” of abuse by the Malian army. The broadcasters’ parent company France Médias Monde said it
Issued on: 25/04/2022 – 14:05 A jihadist group in Mali on Monday claimed to have captured a fighter from the Kremlin-linked Wagner mercenary group reportedly fighting Islamist militants in the West African country. “In the first week of April, (we) captured a soldier of the Russian Wagner forces in the Segou region in central Mali,”
” The genuine video game changer is that the Malian army will lose our air support from one day to the next, that presents a threat of a security space,” the source included.” The Europeans cant do without the Sahel, its in their area.” It will be crucial to learn the lessons from the Sahel”
Released on: 08/02/2022 – 08:26 Malis prime minister on Monday implicated France of having sought the partition of the west African nation throughout its military mission there, the latest flare-up in relations in between Paris and Bamako. In a 45-minute speech to diplomats gathered at his request, Choguel Kokalla Maiga denounced France, the previous colonial
” Do your research study: At no time in the history of the African Union have we had 4 countries in one calendar year, in 12 months, been suspended,” Adeoye said.Addressing African foreign ministers ahead of the summit, Moussa Faki Mahamat, chair of the African Union Commission, denounced a “stressing revival” of such military coups.But
While Paris was depending on the strengthening of the Takuba counter-terrorism force in the Sahel region to make up for the drawdown of soldiers from its former Operation Barkhane, Denmark revealed on Thursday that it would withdraw its soldiers from Mali at the request of the judgment junta. Does this mark the beginning of completion
