Ecowas
- Joe Penney
- • February 9, 2023
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LAGOS — A little more than 11 years after a jihadist and Tuareg separatist alliance stormed northern Mali and wrested control of the main cities of Gao, Timbuktu and Kidal from the Malian state, the two sides are set…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War, UN Peacekeeping
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- Clair MacDougall  and Maggie Dwyer
- • July 4, 2022
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — As the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) announced a lifting of sanctions against the Malian military junta on Sunday, the news may be especially welcome to the nearly two and a half thousand…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
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- Damilola Banjo
- • May 31, 2022
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The number of uninvestigated civilian deaths in Mali is rising but regional bodies and the governments responsible are not willing to take action. From 2018 to 2021, an independent Malian-based news site, sahelien.com, recorded six incidents where 43 civilians…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping
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- Adriana Erthal Abdenur
- • October 3, 2017
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Since attaining independence from Portugal, in 1973, Guinea-Bissau has had almost a dozen presidents, none of whom has managed to finish his mandate. Recurring coups, assassinations and political turmoil at the elite level have contributed to a landscape of…
- Categories: Women
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- Opinion by Rama Musa
- • February 17, 2014
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For a half year, I published Neue Afrique, a digital newsletter that explored business developments in the Economic Community of West African States, known as Ecowas, reaching more than 1,600 diplomats, development analysts, international civil servants, institutional investors and…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 3, 2013
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The new United Nations peacekeeping mission to be activated on July 1 in Mali will have not only a huge contingent of West African soldiers, who are training there right now, but could also have on board Brazilians, Chinese…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 15, 2013
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In its fifth day, France’s air assault against Al Qaeda-related militias and other regional Islamic extremists continues to rattle central Mali and the de fact border region separating the country from its northern territory, which was seized by a…
- Categories: Africa, Security Council
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