A coalition of armed groups and rebels challenges the military government’s authority.
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Mali has been reeling from one political or security crisis to another since 2012.
Armed groups with differing ideologies have launched coordinated attacks across Mali. Can they remain united?
Mali’s Defence Minister Sadio Camara has been killed after coordinated attacks on military sites and his home.
There is no US-led conspiracy or a ‘Christian genocide’. There is an insurgency that has adapted.
Pope Leo XIV was in Bamenda in conflict-hit northwest Cameroon, urging peace in a region beset by deadly fighting.
The latest negotiations come as clashes spill into the South Kivu highlands, with civilians ‘caught in the middle’.
At least 10 people, including three emergency workers, killed in latest Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon.
Armed men have raided Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, apparently with support from the Israeli army.
More than 1,800 civilians have been killed by the army and armed groups since 2023, Human Rights Watch says.
