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REPORT: Russia's African strategy bogs down in Sahelian sand
On one side, ceremonial handshakes and cooperation agreements signed with great fanfare. On the other, Russian fighters encircled in a dusty camp in northern…
COMMENTARY: The jihadist-Tuareg alliance shaking the Malian junta
Some alliances should, on paper, be impossible. The one now uniting JNIM, the Sahelian franchise of Al-Qaeda, and the Azawad Liberation Front, a largely…
DECODING: Anefis, the northern Mali lock Moscow and Bamako can no longer hold
Some towns pass, in the space of days, from total obscurity to strategic emergency. Anefis now belongs to that list. This dusty locality in…
DECODING: why Wagner then Africa Corps keep failing in the Sahel
In 2023, Russia renamed its paramilitary force present in Mali, transforming Wagner into Africa Corps under the direct oversight of the Russian defense ministry,…
PROFILE: Lavrov, the African tour that masks Moscow's failures
From July 7 to 10, 2026, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov completed an African tour that took him successively to Ethiopia, Niger, Mozambique, and…
ANALYSIS: what the July 9 Russian convoy attack in Mali reveals
On July 9, 2026, a convoy of more than three hundred fighters, combining Russian Africa Corps mercenaries and Malian army soldiers, was attacked while…
REPORT: How the Malian junta lost the north of the country in three months
Three years ago, the colonels in Bamako promised their population they would do better than the previous civilian governments, and better than the French…
REPORT: Anefis, the Malian town where the jihadist-Tuareg alliance traps Russian mercenaries
Some town names never make the headlines until the day they become shorthand for an entire war. Anefis, a small town in northern Mali,…
FACT-CHECK: 1,600 dead in three months, counting a Haitian tragedy
The figure of 1,600 dead in three months in Haiti is now circulating widely in international media, but few outlets specify its exact source,…