Category: AES

  • AZAWADIAN REFUGEES IN MAURITANIA IS LAUNCHING AN URGENT APPEAL

    In a context of international silence and worrying refoulements, Azawadian refugees in Mauritania are launching an urgent appeal.  Victims of persecution, deprived of their most fundamental rights, and threatened with extradition to Mali, they denounce the violations they have suffered and demand justice, protection, and dignity. Through this message relayed…

  • DOUBLE DRONE STRIKE IN TIN AICHA AND ZOUÉRA, TIMBUKTU REGION

    The first drone strike targeted the area of Tin Aicha and the second strike targeted the Zouéra market at the peak of its activity. Civilians were burned. Among the victims was an entire family.

  • Censorship 2.0: HOW THE AES MILITARY JUNTAS SILENCE THEIR OPPONENTS ON FACEBOOK

    Instead of ensuring security and responding to citizens’ aspirations, military regimes in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger are investing hundreds of millions of CFA francs to silence critical speech… on Facebook. A new war has begun: a war against free expression, waged through mass reporting, fake links, and organized cyberbullying.

  • TUAREG ART WITHOUT THE TUAREGS: THE HYPOCRISY OF MILITARY JUNTAS IN MALI AND NIGER

    Tuareg art, rich, refined, and embodying an image of freedom, has become a diplomatic tool for the military regimes in Bamako and Niamey. Offering a sword or a painting to foreign heads of state is an attempt to embody an Africa proud of its traditions. But this staging masks a…

  • SOS – TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN ORGANS FROM CIVILIANS KILLED IN AZAWAD, AFRICA

    Once again this macabre topic is circulating around the social media networks. And where there is smoke, there is always fire. Here`s three circulating reports: The instrumentalization of the international counter terrorism effort in the Sahel has become a lucrative business for corrupt organizations that have joined forces to exploit…