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Three junta-ruled Sahel states – Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso – on Saturday resumed dialogue with the ECOWAS regional bloc, which they withdrew from more than 18 months ago. They agreed to work towards a “framework agreement” on cooperation. FRANCE 24’s regional correspondent Harold Girard tells us more.
All over the globe – from the Mexican border to Syria to the Sahel – companies are renting out planes equipped with powerful sensors to armies and intelligence services for political missions. The market may be discreet, but it isn’t invisible.
The city had been taken in April by the Tuaregs rebels, who have now decided to withdraw from government progress
From the Mexican border through the Sahel or Syria, companies rent aircraft barred with sensors to armies and intelligence services for necessarily political missions. A discreet but not invisible market.
In central Sahel's countries military juntas claim to restore popular sovereignty. Political parties are dissolved in all three countries, over a thousand civil society organizations have been suspended.
JNIM has progressively reduced the visible links with Al-Qaeda by changing its brand image, media practices and messages; The last appearance of Al-Qaeda's brand image in its propaganda dates back to late 2024.
In this mini-series of two articles, the BBC analyses the propaganda elements of the jihadist group that seems to want to get rid of Al Qaeda's image.
The International Organization of la Francophonie (OIF) is preparing to hold a vote for the first time in its history to elect its Secretary-General. In an interview with France 24, Louise Mushikiwabo, a candidate for her own estate, called herself "serine". The withdrawal in 2025 from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger of the organization did not, in her view, constitute a failure "of the secretary general".
Togo's Foreign Minister, Robert Dussey, calls not to isolate the countries of the Alliance of Sahel States. He gave an interview to France 24 on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
As UNGA 81 begins, the UN faces a changing Sahel demanding greater sovereignty.
In 1987, Chadian fighters equipped with mobile pickups inflicted a series of spectacular defeats on the Libyan army. A war that continues to illuminate asymmetric conflicts in the Sahel.
