"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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Burkina Faso has long been one of the world’s most overlooked crises. A country of roughly 23 million people, it has been caught in a grinding conflict involving jihadist insurgents, government forces, and community militias that has defied easy solution. Now a major new Human Rights Watch report has laid out in damning detail the
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More than 1,800 civilians have been killed in Burkina Faso since 2023 in attacks by both jihadist insurgents and government security forces, according to a comprehensive Human Rights Watch report documenting an escalating humanitarian catastrophe.
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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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At least 100 civilians were killed in a single military operation in Burkina Faso, according to a detailed Human Rights Watch report. The incident occurred near Solenzo in the Boucle du Mouhoun region.
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