Sahelien.com
- Damilola Banjo
- • May 31, 2022
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
- Clair MacDougall
- • March 31, 2021
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — From above, the photographs show a stretch of charred land in the middle of the desert and a mass grave covered in dried tree branches, where people living around Bounti, a village in central Mali,…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council
- Joe Penney
- • April 22, 2019
Over the past eight months, we at the Mali-based independent news website Sahelien.com have been working on a documentary film called “The Forgotten Ones,” about the urgent security crisis in Mali’s Mopti region, where civilians, soldiers and United Nations…
- Categories: Africa, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 5, 2014
The fast-moving people-power coup that ousted a longtime leader of the landlocked West African country of Burkina Faso took not only powerful nations and international institutions by surprise — including the United Nations, France, the United States, the African…
- Categories: Africa, Governance, Secretary-General, Security Council, US Foreign Relations