The Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) have announced that they successfully repelled an attempted infiltration targeting their ...

Civic spaces are shrinking under Goita’s rule, democracy activists say, as the military suspends ‘political activity’.

Less than two weeks after the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and radical Islamist group Ansar al-Din signed a Mali peace treaty, Algeria is trying to convince the Arab Front for ...

The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and the Ansra Dine rebel groups were all ...

Three days of fighting between pro-government Tuareg militants and Tuareg rebels from the Co-ordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) prompted UN peacekeepers on Tuesday to install a 20km safe zone around ...

the Strategic Framework for the Defence of the People of Azawad, now disbanded) – operating in the region. However, dramatic changes in the Sahelian conflict and political landscape since 2023 ...

Back in 2012, Tuareg rebel groups who were fighting for an independent Azawad state seized Kidal and declared independence. They involved armed groups like JNIM, which later took over the campaign ...

Mrs Funke Agbor, (SAN), has been re-elected into the Executive Council of the Comité Maritime International (CMI) for another three-year term. The Publicity Secretary of NMLA, Mrs Omolola Ikwuagwu, ...

The continuing collapse of international counterterrorism support, as well as weakening leadership in regional efforts, has created a vacuum in which violent extremism can expand.