France enacts landmark legislation to simplify the return of colonial-era artworks to Africa. The law removes a decades-old parliamentary hurdle and opens the door to mass restitutions.
At least 50 people are dead after Al-Qaeda-linked militants carried out coordinated attacks on two villages in central Mali, the deadliest single incident in the country’s insurgency in months.
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Mali reels from coordinated jihadist attacks across five regions that killed Defence Minister Sadio Camara and dozens of soldiers. Military leader Assimi Goita assumed the defence portfolio personally after the deadliest insurgent offensive in years.
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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 is facing its most severe security crisis in years after Russian paramilitary forces withdrew from the strategic northern city of Kidal, allowing jihadist and Tuareg rebel forces to seize control of a stronghold that had long symbolized the state’s authority over its restive north. The withdrawal, confirmed by Russia’s Africa Corps on Saturday, came
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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,
The International Criminal Court has ordered 7.2 million euros ($8.5 million) in compensation to be paid to victims of Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud, the former jihadist leader convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the occupation of Timbuktu between 2012 and 2013. The reparations, awarded
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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’s Defence Minister General Sadio Camara was killed along with family members when jihadist fighters detonated a car bomb at his home in the military stronghold of Kati, just outside the capital Bamako. The attack comes amid coordinated nationwide assaults on army positions, marking one of the deadliest strikes against the Malian junta since its
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Eyewitnesses reported heavy gunfire and explosions rocking multiple districts in Mali’s capital Bamako on April 25, 2026, as armed militants staged apparently coordinated attacks at several locations including the northeastern city of Kidal. The strikes targeted military installations and civilian areas simultaneously, in what Malian authorities described as a major assault by terrorist groups. The
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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
