Africa: Bamako Under Siege - How Coordinated Attacks Exposed the Mali Government's Fragility - and Tested the Aes: [African Arguments] The coordinated attacks that shook Mali on 25-27 April 2026 are not an anomaly. They are the culmination of a long, deteriorating security trajectory--one that has steadily eroded state authority, exposed strategic miscalculations, and now threatens to overwhelm… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TSN2WK #MaliCrisis #BamakoUnderSiege #SecurityInAfrica #MaliGovernment #Insurgency
Violence soars in Mali in the year after Russians arrive

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Alou Diallo says he was drinking tea with his family one morning last month when groups of “white soldiers” invaded his village in central Mali, setting fire to houses and gunning down people suspected of being Islamic extremists.

Associated Press