Firebrand activist Kemi Seba tells a Pretoria court he fears for his life if deported to Benin, as his asylum claim and extradition battle play out in South Africa.
Mali’s military president Assimi Goïta has assumed the defence minister role after a jihadist and separatist offensive killed the previous minister Sadio Camara and overran a key northern base.
Mali’s ruling military junta is facing the most serious security crisis in over a decade after a sweeping coordinated offensive by Tuareg separatists and al-Qaeda-linked jihadists killed the country’s defence minister, General Sadio Camara, and forced the withdrawal of Russian Africa Corps mercenaries from the historic northern city of Kidal. The attacks, launched on Saturday,
Mali’s military junta has been dealt a devastating blow after Defence Minister General Sadio Camara — the powerful figure widely seen as the architect of the regime’s security strategy and its closest link to Moscow — was killed in a car bomb attack at his residence in Kati, the garrison town just outside the capital
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Mali civilians face escalating violence as Africa Corps replaces Wagner with no improvement in security. A landmark case at the African Court exposes the crisis.
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Bamako | April 15, 2026 When Mali’s military junta formally ended its security partnership with France in 2022 and expelled French troops, it set in motion one of the most consequential realignments in modern African security politics. The successor arrangement — a deepening relationship with Russia’s Africa Corps — has transformed the military landscape of
"We Do Not Feel Safe" — Fear Grips Mali Under Russia’s Africa Corps In the sand-swept corridors of Bamako’s hotels, among diplomats and aid workers who once spoke freely, a new climate of fear has taken hold. Since the arrival of Russia’s Africa Corps — formerly known as Wagner — in Mali, the nature of
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In the ancient city of Kidal, deep in Mali’s troubled north, Russian flags fly openly now. Paramilitaries in sandy fatigues, identifiable by their distinctive insignia and their heavily armed convoys of white Toyota Hilux pickups, patrol streets that once bustled with Tuareg traders. Their presence was meant to bring security. Instead, it has brought a
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