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[Centre 4s] The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has strong diplomatic relations with the Sahel, also based on the precious metal: gold. Concerned countries are: Sudan, Libya, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, and Mauritania. Togo, a gold producer, is also of interest. All these countries are also fighting terrorism, which the UAE is combating everywhere. In 2024, the UAE imported nearly 1,400 tons of gold, worth over $105 billion, more than half of which--$748 billion--came from Africa.1 While its traceability is

[Norwegian Refugee Council] A poisonous cocktail of escalating conflict, blockades, increased displacement, and humanitarian funding cuts is pushing people in Mali to the brink. Families are cutting back on meals, and many children are unable to attend school, warns the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).

[RFI] Two journalists from Mali's state broadcaster ORTM have appeared in a video released by the armed Islamist group JNIM, more than six weeks after they were abducted in the centre of the country. Collgeaues have described the images as shocking.

[Vanguard] The Nasarawa State Police Command has arrested 39 irregular migrants from Mali, allegedly recruited for an undisclosed mission, following a raid in Mararaba, Karu Local Government Area.

[Afropop] When Malian singer Amadou Bagayoko fell sick this past spring, those around him assumed he would recover. "C'est le palu." "It's malaria," he told one acquaintance, not an uncommon affliction for a West African. Alas, the ailmend was more serious than anyone knew, and Amadou passed away on April 4 at 71 years of age, way too soon for one so alive, vigorous, and of course, beloved around the world. For a time, it was unclear what would happen with the live act Amadou and Mariam. They were on the verge of

[MSF] Since September 2025 in Mali, the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM) have been preventing fuel imports from neighbouring countries, such as Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, and Senegal, from reaching Bamako and other cities, including Ségou, Koutiala, and Mopti. JNIM has attacked fuel tankers and ambushed their military escorts. This has had several consequences on Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF's) medical activities.

[UNOWAS] Dakar -- The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mr. Leonardo Santos Simão, today concluded a two-day official solidarity visit to Bamako, Mali.

[People's Dispatch] As panic-inducing travel advisories and doomsaying media reports prophesy the fall of Mali to an Al Qaeda affiliate attacking fuel convoys, the government has re-secured supply routes and hosted Mali's first international defense expo in a supposedly besieged capital.

[MFWA] Political commentator and former legislator Issa Kaou N'Djim has been released from prison in Bamako after serving one year of a two-year sentence for comments deemed insulting to Burkina Faso's military authorities. His family confirmed that he returned home at 11:00 a.m. (GMT) on November 13, 2025, exactly one year after his arrest.

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