Reports

Dakar, 2 May, 2012 ‐ The Heads of the United Nations (UN) Peace Missions in West Africa held their twenty‐third high‐level consultation in Dakar to review the progress in the coordination of the action of the…

• The insecurity and conflict in the northern regions of Mali have displaced over 240,000 people. Of these, more than 147,000 have sought refuge in Niger, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, and Algeria. • A continuation of the current…

NEW YORK, 1 May 2012 – “Yesterday Human Rights Watch issued a compelling report that details testimony about abductions and rapes of girls and women by armed groups in northern Mali and the recruitment and use…

By William Lloyd-George NIAMEY , May 4, 2012 (IPS) - It was tough for Hassan Toure to decide to stay in his small town on the outskirts of Kidal, in northern Mali. The government troops had withdrawn…

04/05/2012 – SOS Children’s Villages Mali is helping to protect 134 children of families who have fled the anarchic situation in the North in Mali’s three SOS Hermann Gmeiner Schools. The children of the evacuated SOS…

De nombreux mineurs figurent dans les rangs des groupes rebelles qui occupent depuis plus d’un mois le Nord du Mali. “Ils sont armés et restent avec les adultes, de garde ou de patrouille, ils ont probablement…

Un collectif d’organisations non gouvernementales et d’associations de la société civile du Niger s’est mobilisé en faveur de la population voisine du Mali, en proie depuis janvier à un conflit entre l’armée et des mouvements rebelles. Au…

“They are armed, they are with adults, on duty or on patrol, they have probably have already fought, many are no more than 14 years old”: a MISNA source in Gao, northern Mali confirmed the presence…

DAKAR/OUAGADOUGOU, 4 May 2012 (IRIN) - Sahelian governments and local and international aid groups are struggling to cope with both the continual arrivals of people fleeing the regions of Gao, Timbuktu and Kidal in northern Mali,…

Introduction General context The Sahel region is a transitional zone between the arid Sahara and the tropical forest. It represents the southern edge of the Sahara desert, extending at least 4500 km from Cape Verde through Senegal, Mauritania,…