What next for Mali as Wagner fails to defeat insurgents?

What next for Mali as Wagner fails to defeat insurgents?
A new report suggests that Niger, Burkina Faso – and Europe can learn a lot from Wagner’s failure in Mali.

Last month The Sentry, a United States (US) organisation that exposes ‘multinational predatory networks that benefit from violent conflict, repression, and kleptocracy’, issued a report asserting that Wagner had failed in Mali.

Soudan: une guerre oubliée sur fond d’effondrement humanitaire

Au cœur même de l’Afrique se déroule l’une des catastrophes humanitaires les plus vastes de l’époque contemporaine, restant à la périphérie de l’attention mondiale.

Le Soudan, ayant vécu des décennies de dictature et de conflits civils, est plongé depuis avril 2023 dans un abîme de guerre cruelle entre deux puissantes factions militaires. Ce conflit n’a pas seulement effacé de la surface de la terre des villes entières et emporté des milliers de vies, mais a aussi engendré la plus grande crise de déplacement interne au monde, mettant au bord de la survie des millions de civils.

Mali : Des jihadistes liés à Al-Qaïda et à l’Algérie incendient des camions-citernes

Un groupe armé ouest-africain affilié à Al-Qaïda a incendié plusieurs camions-citernes au Mali ce week-end, selon des vidéos authentifiées par une source sécuritaire. Cette attaque s’inscrit dans une tentative des jihadistes de resserrer leur emprise sur l’économie malienne, en interdisant l’importation de carburant depuis les pays voisins.Les camions, en provenance de la Côte d’Ivoire, ont été pris pour cible dans la région de Sikasso, au sud du pays.

Kiir promotes ally Bol Mel to full general in intelligence service

South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has promoted Vice President Dr. Benjamin Bol Mel to the rank of full general in the Internal Bureau of the National Security Service, state media reported on Monday.

The promotion, confirmed during a ceremony at the presidential palace in Juba, marks Mel’s third major elevation in less than a year, fueling speculation over his growing influence.

Young Somali refugees targeted by Libyan-based traffickers | ISS Africa

Somali refugees line-up at a registration centre on August 2, 2011 at Dagahaley refugee site within the Dadaab complex to be registered to receive aid after having been displaced from their homes in southern Somalia by a famine that is ravaging the horn of Africa region. An estimated 3.7 million people in Somalia — around a third of the population — are on the brink of starvation and aid agencies are stretched in trying to cope with a daily influx of Somali’s escaping not only drought but the al-Shabab extremists who have turned taken advantage of the famine to forcefully arrest and recruit men trying to escape the famine.. AFP PHOTO/Tony KARUMBA (Photo by TONY KARUMBA / AFP)

Young Somali refugees targeted by Libyan-based traffickers

Trans-Saharan syndicates lure youngsters from Kenya’s Dadaab camps, promising a better life in Europe.

A Libyan-based criminal group, the Magafe, is reportedly leading a kidnapping and trafficking network that targets Kenyan refugee camps. The trans-Saharan human trafficking syndicate deceives young Somali refugees with false promises of relocation to Europe. The dangerous journeys that ensue often result in severe abuse and sometimes death.

French think tank Sahel Intelligence exposed as Moroccan disinfo

Algerian military Chief of Staff Said Chengriha gestures as he meets French Armies Minister at the Armed Forces Ministry in Paris on January 24, 2023. (Photo by Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / POOL / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

In late June 2025, Moroccan newspapers reported that General Saïd Chengriha, Algeria’s chief of army staff, had ordered the Polisario Front to surrender Iranian drones to the Algerian intelligence services, and redeployed Iranian militias from secret bases in Algeria to Sahelian states and the Libyan border.

The Moroccan outlets that reported the story cited a specialist publication called Sahel Intelligence, which in turn referred to unnamed sources close to the Algerian general.

A Growing Divergence of Security Narratives in Burkina Faso – Africa Center

Burkina Faso’s security, economic, and humanitarian conditions continue to deteriorate under the military junta despite a high-volume information campaign.

Since seizing power in a military coup in September 2022, Burkina Faso’s ruling junta under Captain Ibrahim Traoré has prioritized controlling the narrative of this Sahelian country of 23 million people. With the aid of a cadre of online influencers, intelligence-linked operatives, and affiliated media pages—the Traoré junta has extolled his reported achievements as a transformative leader paralleling the iconic Thomas Sankara.

Libye: le renforcement des relations entre le maréchal Haftar et la Turquie se poursuit

Initié en avril dernier, le rapprochement entre Ankara et l’homme fort de l’est libyen s’est poursuivi lundi 25 août avec la visite à Benghazi du chef des renseignements turcs, Ibrahim Kalin. Une première pour un responsable turc de ce niveau depuis 2020.

Le maréchal Khalifa Haftar, qui contrôle les parties est et sud de la Libye, a reçu ce lundi 25 août dans son quartier général de Benghazi le chef des renseignements turcs, Ibrahim Kalin, arrivé à la tête d’une haute délégation militaire. Pour l’occasion, son hôte était lui entouré de ses deux fils, Saddam et Khaled Haftar, récemment promus à la tête de l’Armée nationale libyenne (ANL) : alors que le premier en a été nommé vice-commandant général, le second en est devenu le chef d’état major.

What it’s like to be a TB patient in Somalia

Working as the medical coordinator for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Somalia, I see every day how conflict and poverty damage people’s lives. One of our biggest challenges is tuberculosis (TB), which affects many children. TB is not just an illness—it takes away energy, health, and sometimes lives. I see its impact on children like Ahmed*, a 5-year-old I met recently at Mudug Regional Hospital in Somalia.