Despite last week's attack on its facility, Mali's second lithium mine is moving toward exporting its production: mining.com/kodal-secures-…

According to Janes, the convoy of new military vehicles that arrived in Bamako on Wednesday was carrying Chinese armor (MRAPs, APCs & fire support vehicles) for FAMa use: janes.com/osint-insights…

Those editors at The Continent are up to their old rhyming tricks again....

Things could move pretty fast in Mali if the army doesn't step in quickly to deal with this

In #Mali, JNIM is trying to cut off roads coming into the country by attacking and burning civilian trucks. So far they have targeted roads from Senegal, Guinea, and Cote d'Ivoire. This poses serious dangers to a landlocked country.

But no, friends of #Mali, the roads into Bamako have not been blocked; in fact the enemy is on his last legs, desperately seeking to sow chaos wherever order is being restored! This sunny assessment comes unsurprisingly from the FAMa spokesman.

The military supply convoy that arrived in Bamako last week also included Chinese multiple-launch rocket systems, according to APA News: fr.apanews.net/news/mali-acqu…

Is your country a democracy? In recognition of International Day of Democracy, we're exploring what Africans think about the state of democracy in their homeland. Read our latest in The Continent to see what they say. #VoicesAfrica #GoodGovernance

In its ongoing bid to police public morals, the government of #Mali has arrested a rapper (maliactu.net/bamako-le-rapp…) and banned twerking at parties brut.media/afrique/videos…

This is the music video that got rapper Mylmo arrested. It depicts the killing of a Fulani man wrongly targeted by #Mali security forces and warns, "the terrorists have no ethnicity": youtu.be/BD7EAVdNlZg?fe…

Interesting quote from the prime minister of #Mali, posted in the account of the state newspaper: "Even if we must seek our fuel on foot with spoons, we'll do it." Perhaps a little off-message for a regime that has the security situation under control...

At least 40 fuel tankers burned in al Qaeda-linked attack in #Mali, truck drivers' union official says reuters.com/world/africa/l…

From Alex Thurston: "All of the Sahel’s would-be external security providers offer more or less the same hollow promise – namely, each external partner promises that it has the most sophisticated recipe for killing jihadists. All have failed." responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-mali-nig…

I wish the world was as simple as the one presented by Peoples Dispatch peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/15/sah…

Since #Mali opened up mining to foreign firms in the early 1990s, no mine in the country has been operated by a Turkish company. Now Turkey, after several years of selling arms to the Malian government, is showing interest in Mali's mining sector.

En bamanankan, no less

We can never have enough reports of Amadou Haya Sanogo sightings! jeuneafrique.com/1724106/politi…