Le 25 avril, plusieurs villes du Mali, dont la capitale, Bamako, ont simultanément été attaquées par deux groupes rebelles, le Jnim et le FLA. L’un des membres éminents de la junte militaire, au (…)

Thursday 14th & Friday 15th May 2026 - Institute for Fiscal Studies, London

Attacks by a jihadist group on fuel convoys bound for Bamako, the capital of Mali, have destroyed more than 130 tankers since September, a Bellingcat investigation has found.  The systematic attacks by Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) have brought Bamako and other regions of the West African nation to a standstill as the Al Qaeda-affiliated […]

A contributor to Radio 4's Thought for the Day slot made the remark about the shadow justice secretary.

The Sokoto Caliphate of northern Nigeria was the workshop of West Africa in the pre-colonial nineteenth century, producing famous blue-black cloth that reached many markets south of the Sahara as wel...

The Sokoto Caliphate of northern Nigeria was the workshop of West Africa in the pre-colonial nineteenth century, producing famous blue-black cloth that reached many markets south of the Sahara as wel...

Economists and historians have long studied living standards in Massachusetts. An article by Luis Felipe Zegarra Basurco employs linear programming to estimate laborers’ welfare ratios in Bos…