Mali has said it “will not stand idly by” if foreign governments intervene in neighouring Niger, Bamako’s top diplomat warned the United Nations on Saturday, after both countries’ juntas joined a mutual defence pact. Rebel elite soldiers overthrew Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum on July 26 and ...

The UN Security Council on Friday ended a decade-old peacekeeping mission in Mali, whose military junta has aligned with Russia and demanded the withdrawal of the international force battling jihadists. Bowing to the principle that peacekeepers need the consent of the host government, the ...