- Vol 53 No 8
- 13th April 2012
With Islamists, putschists and nationalists claiming all the attention in Mali, the growing food crisis in the Sahel is in danger of slipping under the radar. There were poor rains in the 2011 growing season (June to November) and in Mauritania, 700,000 p...
- Vol 53 No 7
- 30th March 2012
Behind the coup in Bamako lies deep discontent at impunity as well as the mishandling of the Tuareg revolt
- Vol 53 No 4
- 17th February 2012
Mali has rapidly moved from peaceful political campaigning to bloody military confrontation and inter-communal strife
- Vol 53 No 4
- 17th February 2012
Attacks by the Mouvement national pour la libération de l’Azawad (MNLA) have been not only fierce but well planned. The late January assault on Ménaka, in the far south-east near Niger, was followed by operations against Tessalit and Aguelhok, 500-600 kil...
- Vol 52 No 24
- 2nd December 2011
Voters ask why President Touré wants to reform the constitution and
boost women’s rights before next year’s elections
- Vol 52 No 24
- 2nd December 2011
The serenity of the elections contrasts starkly with deteriorating security in the north, with hundreds of well-armed Tuareg fighters and weapons streaming in from Libya, increased Tuareg banditry and more operations by Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.
- Vol 51 No 19
- 24th September 2010
For Niger, the crisis with Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) comes as the military regime that overthrew President Mamadou Tandja last February approaches the return of democracy.
- Vol 51 No 15
- 23rd July 2010
Party leaders face a new challenger for the 2012 succession to retiring President Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT). The Parti pour le développement économique et solidaire (PDES), launched on 17 July with ATT's not-so-tacit backing, present...
- Vol 50 No 24
- 4th December 2009
Interpol is investigating the fate of a Boeing jet carrying some 10 tonnes of cocaine which landed in Mali on 2 November and may have been deliberately destroyed. The Boeing had taken off from Venezuela, according to Alexandre Schmidt, Director of the reg...
- Vol 49 No 23
- 14th November 2008
Last week's discovery of a consignment of weapons in a car en route to Mali raises yet more questions about corruption and divisions within Guinea's security forces. A team of gendarmes, commanded by Lieutenant Amadou Diogo Dramé, found 25 PMAK ass...