AGP Executive Report
Last update: 8 hours agoSahel Media Under Pressure: WAJSIC released “The Sahel: The State of the Media 2025–2026,” a report on press freedom and journalist safety in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, citing legal restrictions, sanctions, digital surveillance, economic pressure, and intimidation, plus growing risks for reporters in exile. Mali’s Security Crossroads: A new analysis says the US is weighing military options against JNIM in Mali, while Bamako says it has no confirmation and “counts above all on itself,” underscoring how foreign help is being handled quietly. Diplomacy and Regional Ties: Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye arrived in Bamako for talks with Mali’s junta leader Assimi Goïta, his first trip since taking the ECOWAS chair. International Justice Rift: The ICC faces accelerating withdrawals as Mali is named among countries voting against UN human rights chief Volker Türk’s renewal, amid a wider US–France diplomatic clash that included a UN Security Council walkout.
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