{"id":3443,"date":"2026-05-04T23:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T22:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3443"},"modified":"2026-05-04T23:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T22:05:19","slug":"update-4-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3443","title":{"rendered":"Update 4 May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"headlines titleModule \"><span class=\"title titleModule__main\">Les rebelles veulent conqu\u00e9rir les villes du Nord et pr\u00e9disent la chute de la junte, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapresse.ca\/international\/afrique\/2026-04-29\/mali\/les-rebelles-veulent-conquerir-les-villes-du-nord-et-predisent-la-chute-de-la-junte.php\">La Presse<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1k1a1x\">Mali\u2019s militant attacks expose limits of Putin\u2019s power in Africa, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/27\/mali-militant-attacks-putin-russia-africa\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The junta loses control after the onslaught and a stalemate sets in, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-confidential.com\/article-preview\/id\/15984\/the-junta-loses-control-after-the-onslaught-and-a-stalemate-sets-in\">Africa Confidential<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mali attacks show security cannot be delivered by military means alone, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chathamhouse.org\/2026\/04\/mali-attacks-show-security-cannot-be-delivered-military-means-alone\">Chatham House<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">Mali : \u00c0 Tessalit, ils t\u00e9moignent des m\u00e9thodes d&#8217;Africa Corps, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9RLPsGd6oOE\">TV5 Monde<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-title \">Tchiani&#8217;s balancing act in face of mounting security crisis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africaintelligence.com\/west-africa\/2026\/04\/14\/tchiani-s-balancing-act-in-face-of-mounting-security-crisis,110703185-eve\">Africa Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are the Sahel\u2019s Jihadists Opening a New Front in Guinea?, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldpoliticsreview.com\/sahel-jihadists-jnim-guinea\/\">WPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-title separate\">The spin doctors polishing Abdourahamane Tchiani&#8217;s image, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africaintelligence.com\/west-africa\/2026\/04\/22\/the-spin-doctors-polishing-abdourahamane-tchiani-s-image,110709149-art\">Africa Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les rebelles veulent conqu\u00e9rir les villes du Nord et pr\u00e9disent la chute de la junte, La Presse Mali\u2019s militant attacks expose limits of Putin\u2019s power in Africa, The Guardian The junta loses control after the onslaught and a stalemate sets &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3443\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3443"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3450,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions\/3450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}