Niger has barred groundnut exports to reserve the crop for domestic oil mills, with possible exceptions for its Sahel alliance partners. The restriction extends the government’s drive to process food at home, while its minister calls on public institutions and importers to buy locally produced goods.
Four villages in central Mali emptied after repeated attacks and drone fire blamed on al-Qaeda-linked jihadists, according to newly published RFI reporting. Its local sources also attribute an earlier market strike that killed a civilian to the same group, exposing violence absent from the fighters’ public claims.
The UN Security Council voted 13–0, with China and Russia abstaining, to keep peacekeepers in Abyei, a territory claimed by Sudan and South Sudan, until November 2027. Members split over whether future renewals should depend on progress by the two governments, which African members said could endanger civilian protection.
A local official has raised the reported toll from a drone strike on displaced people in Sudan’s Blue Nile state from nine to 16, with others still missing. Wounded survivors have reached the state capital, while other injured and missing people remain unaccounted for in the area, according to the new report.
Chad’s president has ordered security forces in Salamat province to confiscate military weapons from civilian holders and take them to prison. The instruction follows discussion of communal conflict and obstructed livestock-herding corridors, extending a disarmament drive whose earlier orders the president said had gone unfulfilled.
The UN migration agency estimates that 5,035 people fled three villages in Sudan’s North Darfur state on 10–11 November, and most families crossed into neighbouring Chad. The estimate, reported by Anadolu, comes as the World Food Programme seeks $520m to keep feeding people in Sudan through April 2027.
The World Bank has prepared about $760m in additional financing for Niger, its regional vice-president said after meeting the prime minister on Thursday, according to the state news agency. Niamey is separately seeking $561m to complete the Kandadji dam, a project meant to supply power, water and irrigation; no link between the sums was announced.
Niger wants its groundnuts processed at home, but restricting exports changes only part of the bargain. Domestic factories and women’s processing businesses show how purchasing finance, cooking-oil competition and animal-feed sales determine whether more crop value stays in the country—and whether farmers gain dependable buyers.
In Mauritania, a residence card can restore the freedom to work and move—or remain out of reach while an application waits. Migrants’ contrasting experiences reveal how Europe’s migration-control partner also governs a regional destination for work and refuge, where obtaining papers and making them count are different struggles.
Niger wants its Chinese oil partnership to deliver more local jobs, a larger commercial stake and export earnings routed through domestic banks. A reported May agreement did not end the dispute: older contractual claims and the government’s own unfinished obligations complicate its effort to bring more of the industry’s value home.
