Egyptian official announces free train rides for Sudanese refugees returning home, highlighting regional support efforts.
Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has offered to mediate between Mali’s military junta and Tuareg rebel forces, but on one condition: Bamako must officially request his help. Tebboune, who revealed his willingness to mediate during a recent chat with journalists, also stated that Algeria will not tolerate mercenaries—hinting at Mali’s Russian Africa Corps presence—along their 1,400-km shared border. Tensions between the neighbors have escalated since Mali withdrew from an Algerian-brokered peace deal in 2024, following violent clashes with the Tuareg-led CMA coalition. Mali has also accused Algiers of harboring militants who cross the border to wreak havoc on Malian soil, and both sides have levied accusations of cross-border drone strikes against each other. With the UN peacekeepers gone and instability rising, Tebboune’s proposal signals Algeria’s desire to reassert its role as a regional peace broker.
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