Al Jazeera
Dec 22, 2020
UN probe in Mali sees war crimes, crimes against humanity: Report
Allegations made in a 338-page report by the International Commission of Inquiry for Mali which investigated violence between 2012-2018....
Al Jazeera
Dec 16, 2020
What next for conflict-hit Burkina Faso after Kabore re-election?
Could Burkinabe president’s second term see a new approach to security or could spiraling violence trigger civil unrest? By Henry Wilkins...
Genocide Watch
Aug 10, 2020
Genocide Emergency: Burkina Faso
Since 2016, three armed Islamist groups, the Group for Support of Muslims (JNIM), the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), and...
Al Jazeera
Aug 7, 2020
Gunmen kill more than a dozen in attack in eastern Burkina Faso
Unidentified gunmen have killed about 20 people in an attack on a cattle market in eastern Burkina Faso, the government said in a...
Genocide Watch
Aug 3, 2020
Genocide Emergency: Mali
Genocide Watch is issuing a Genocide Emergency for Mali. Insurgents and security forces have killed thousands of civilians and created a...
VOA (Voice of America)
Aug 3, 2020
Attacks, Abuses On the Rise in Africa’s Sahel Region
JOHANNESBURG - While global attention remains centered on the coronavirus, a U.S. special envoy is sounding the alarm about crises in...
Al Jazeera
Jul 27, 2020
Caught between climate crisis and armed violence in Burkina Faso
Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso - Growing up in a community of farmers in northern Burkina Faso, KI, who prefers that his full name not be used...
Al Jazeera
Jul 23, 2020
West African leaders on high-stakes mission to end Mali standoff
West African leaders have arrived in Bamako on a high-stakes mission aimed at defusing Mali's weeks-long political crisis that has raised...
Reuters
Jul 17, 2020
Villagers killed in central Mali as mediators seek to restore stability
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Armed men killed at least 12 villagers in central Mali, local officials said on Thursday, while in the capital Bamako...
Al Jazeera
Jul 14, 2020
ICC opens trial against Mali national over Timbuktu destruction
The trial of a Malian fighter accused of demolishing Timbuktu's shrines has begun at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague....
The Guardian
Jul 13, 2020
'Guardians of the bush': brutal vigilantes police Burkina Faso
A rifle hangs in the corner, refuse bags of seized cannabis strewn in the dirt at the men’s feet. Heavy chains have been fixed to the...
Associated Press 1
Jul 9, 2020
Burkina Faso's volunteer fighters are no match for jihadists
KONGOUSSI, Burkina Faso (AP) — Armed only with a knife, Issa Tamboure was no match for gun-wielding jihadists who attacked his village in...
