Tag: Mali
Jeanne Diama (Mali): “Hand-stitched / Human blows”
Anna tells when it all started: when she was 8 years old, when “the first gentlemen came to the house”. It bears witness to the chain of violence. She was…
Mali: the United States sanctions three senior officials for having facilitated the expansion of Wagner there
The United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned on July 24, 2023 three Malian military and transitional government officials, including Defense Minister Sadio Camara, “for facilitating the deployment and expansion…
Human Rights Watch denounces “new atrocities committed by soldiers and alleged Wagner men”
Ten days after publishing a report on the violence committed by jihadist groups in Mali, the human rights organization this time documents new cases of abuses committed by the Malian…
Mali wants bogolan recognized as a national product
In Mali, bogolan is a cotton fabric colored with fermented mud. This is what the word bogolan means, literally “made with the earth”, in Bambara. In order to protect and…
Post-traumatic stress, soldiers without apparent injuries
The mental injury of soldiers engaged in operations is a phenomenon that affects more than 3,000 French soldiers. On March 30, the Solidarité Défense association presented the Minister for the…
ECOWAS sends Patrice Talon on a mission to the juntas in Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso
The new current president of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Bola Tinubu received on Tuesday July 18 in Nigeria his Beninese counterparts Patrice Talon and Bissau-Guinean Umaro…
For years, the Pentagon’s sensitive messages have been leaked to Mali, whose military administration is increasingly relying on Russia
Email messages from Pentagon employees have been sent to Mali for a decade. Millions of emails intended for Pentagon employees have been inadvertently sent to Mali over the past decade,…
Mali: patriotism and development, the volte-face Choguel Maïga?
The Prime Minister of the transition gave a speech on Sunday, July 16, which is the subject of criticism in Mali. Choguel Maïga spoke of the impact of populist remarks,…
Human Rights Watch calls on Mali to “redouble its efforts” in the face of terrorist violence
In a report published Thursday, July 13, the human rights NGO Human Rights Watch appealed to the Bamako authorities on terrorist violence, after having documented the ” large-scale murders, rapes…
Mali: deadly attack against a Minusma convoy
In Mali, a Minusma logistics convoy was attacked Thursday, July 6 in the Gao region. This convoy was even attacked twice, in the same day, by suspected jihadists. Three civilians…