U.S. Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson drafts TPS legislation for Cameroon
U.S. Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Democrat who represents Texas’s 30th congressional district, is in the early stages of drafting legislation for Temporary Protected...
Mali: ‘Promoting security must not be done at expense of democracy...
Recent developments in Mali have brought international attention back to the lingering challenges of instability and distrust since the signing of Algiers Peace Accord...
Mali: the June 5 Movement holds its position
Tension has temporarily eased in the Malian capital on Tuesday July 14 after several days of violence. The June 5 Movement, which demands the...
Mali: farmers postpone the cultivation cotton
The fall in the price of cotton and the rise in the price of fertilizer have angered farmers. From Koutiala to Yorosso, the producers...
Niger/Covid-19: what fate for migrants since the closure of borders?
Officially closed due to the coronavirus disease, internal movements are reduced, and several hundred migrants are housed in transit centers and temporary sites to...
Burkina Faso: these northern cities under jihadist embargo
Burkina Faso is facing an unprecedented health crisis that tends to overlook terrorist attacks in the Sahel, the north and the east of the...
Covid-19 / Burkina Faso: all scenarios predict a bad time for...
From March 09 to June 5, 2020, Burkina Faso has recorded a total of 889 confirmed cases of covid-19, 53 deaths and 772 recovered....
Covid-19 / Niger: “In intensive care, we are pretty well off”
No break for frontline health workers from coronavirus disease. Two months after the announcement of the first case of covid-19 in Niger, the disease...
Covid-19 / Social measures and citizen actions: what impact?
The novel coronavirus (Covid-19) is putting Mali to a hard test. A country already weakened by war and unprecedented insecurity. To deal with this...
Mali: two candidates in the parliamentarian elections kidnapped during the electoral...
Soumaïla Cissé, leader of the Malian opposition and Mamadou Sory Coulibaly, mayor of the rural commune of Kareri (Dioura) were kidnapped by armed groups...
Djenné: difficult professional retraining of tourist guides after several years of...
The security crisis affecting the central region and northern Mali continues to paralyze several sectors of activity. In the city of Djenné (Mopti region),...
Djenné: how a young griot advocates ancestral values to talk about...
Since the beginning of the year, the talks that were under way between the different armed groups in the Djenné locality have resulted in...
Burkina Faso: Over 320 000 students affected by insecurity as the...
The closed schools are in six out of the thirteen regions in the country. At the end of the school year, especially last June,...
Center of Mali: more than 600 civilians killed since the beginning...
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations in Mali (OCHA) issued this Monday, July 1, an alarming statement on...
Mali: jihadist presence “deters” poaching of elephants in Gourma
Many pachyderms lived in this vast space between the Mopti, Timbuktu and Gao regions. Before the 2012 crisis, they were estimated to be between...
In Mopti, communities seek a way out of crisis
A forum on peace and social cohesion gathered on Thursday, June 20, the youth of Ginna Dogon and Tabital Pulaaku and several communities in...
Burkina Faso: In the center-north, the security situation remains worrying
For more than three years, the country is facing many terrorist threats. In April, they intensified in the north besieged by armed men killing...
Taoudéni: 750 km from Timbuktu, Mohamed lives on the artisanal mining...
This region of northern Mali has been known for centuries for its rock salt mines. Although this salt is popular, industrial exploitation is struggling...
Mali : In Mopti, residents say “no” to killings in the...
A few dozen people expressed their discontent, Wednesday, June 12, in the afternoon, at the entrance of the city.
Banners, paper in hands, they chanted...
Next steps as violence surges in central Mali
Government should focus on protecting civilians and avoiding actions that label certain communities as jihadist affiliates.
On 23 March the conflict in central Mali escalated...