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Spotlight | Mali
From Dakar to Conakry, Goïta walks tightrope with regional strategy

General Assimi Goïta, head of the Malian junta, in Beijing in September 2024. © Ken Ishii/Pool/Reuters

The Malian junta is attempting to tighten ties with its neighbours Senegal and Guinea in order to loosen the stranglehold imposed on it by the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (GSIM). However, its calls for help are far from yielding results.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

Central Africa

Burundi, DRC, Rwanda
Spy chiefs intervene to get Burundian forces out of DRC

The withdrawal of Burundian forces from Congolese territory was made possible by confidential talks between Burundian and Rwandan spymasters.

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy

West Africa

Benin
Online betting giant Betclic bows out

The CEO and founder of Betclic, Nicolas Béraud, in Bordeaux (France) in April 2025. © Sébastien Ortola/REA

The French site has closed its subsidiary in the country only a few years after being granted its licence, amid a disagreement over taxes. Despite powerful allies in Cotonou, the company failed to secure support from the Loterie Nationale du Bénin.

Subscribers only Business

Senegal
United Nations examines eastern border security

United Nations teams affiliated with the Integrated Border Stability Mechanism are conducting numerous studies and audits to advise the Senegalese authorities.

Subscribers only Defence

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan
After fall of El Fasher, attention shifts to Jebel Marra

The Rapid Support Forces are insisting that the Sudan Liberation Movement hand over army soldiers who have taken refuge in this isolated mountainous area. Urged to join the parallel government, the SLM is also troubled by internal divisions.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

Southern Africa and islands

South Africa
Pretoria's vain attempts at Ukraine peace plan in Doha

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria, in April 2025. © Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters

For months, South Africa has been trying to support Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's "peace formula" with a view to ending the war with Russia. These efforts have been undermined by the United States, which announced its own 28-point plan on 20 November.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

North Africa

Algeria
Impatience mounts as Algiers remains silent on milk powder imports

Although the government granted, at the end of August, national companies permission to import raw material, quantities authorised remain very limited.

Subscribers only Commodity traders

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