The Russian mercenary group – Wagner - is helping government forces in central and northern Mali carry outraids and drone strikes killing scores of civilians, rights groups said in reports published this week.
Following military coups in all three nations in recent years, the ruling military juntas have expelled French forces and turned to Russia's mercenary units for security assistance instead.
The juntas ruling Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso earlier this month announced a joint security force to fight the worsening extremist violence in their Sahel region.
Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA) that controls eastern Libya, recently held talks with Russian President Vladimir
Egypt has decided not to appoint a new ambassador to Israel until the war in Gaza comes to an end,
France’s development agency, AFD, plans to invest €150 million in Morocco’s southern provinces, including the disputed territory of
The USS Mount Whitney, the U.S. Sixth Fleet’s command ship, has docked in Nouakchott, underscoring Washington’s commitment
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