On November 15, 2021 the official launch for the start of the training activities of the “Avenir Brillant” project took place at the Missabougou vocational training center. The project, "Avenir Brillant: creation of socio-economic opportunities and strengthening child protection for potential migrants, in transit and returning to Mali", co-funded by the Italian Ministry of the Interior, ActionAid Italy and Plan International Italy has been put into place by a consortium of national and (...)

On Saturday July 3, 2021, the Town Hall of Commune I of the District of Bamako hosted a workshop to share the results of survey research on the impact of the European Union (EU) Emergency Trust Fund implemented in Mali, Senegal, and Niger. The research was carried out by the CIMADE, the Association Malienne des Expulsés (AME), REMIDEV (Senegal) and Alternatives Espaces Citoyens (Niger). The general objective was to share their analysis of the Emergency Trust Fund’s impact with civil society (...)

Europe is expelling thousands of Africans. To one Malian deportee, that looks like a recipe for revolution.
Amadou Coulibaly spent his nights swabbing a mop over acres of dimly lit office space as France’s corporate workforce slept. Each dawn, he bedded down with a dozen other Malian immigrants, who rested in shifts in a barren, one-room flat they shared in Paris’s 15th arrondissement. But Coulibaly slept soundly in the surety of his purpose.
Born to a poor family in Bamako, Mali’s (...)

78 Malians were deported Sunday from Equatorial Guinea to Bamako. Officially, the Equatorial Guinean authorities affirm that they were undocumented immigrants. But according to the Malian Association for Deportees, many of those deported had legal documentation. Malian authorities have stated that they do not understand the deportations and demand an explanation from the Equatorial Guinean authorities.
Among the deportees includes young infants. Civil protection guaranteed their safe (...)

Mos Maiorum is yet another battle in the war the EU has waged against an imaginary enemy.
Between 13 and 26 October, police forces of the Member States of the European Union (EU) are to conduct massive control operations both within the Schengen area and at its external borders. A week after the commemoration of the tragedy of Lampedusa in October 2013, a “hunt on migrants” operation dubbed ‘Mos Maiorum’ is to be launched in collaboration with Frontex and Europol. The large-scale operation, (...)