Mali’s crisis began in 2012, when coalitions of Tuareg secessionists known collectively as the Coordination of Azawad ...

Ostensibly meant to foster greater cooperation between Francophone countries, the three countries allege that the ...

Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso are now all ruled by military juntas that have severed diplomatic ties with France and expelled French troops while building security partnerships with Russia instead.

Mali has withdrawn from a global alliance of French-speaking countries, days after two of its neighbors took the same step.