Senegal's National Assembly, which is dominated by the opposition, rejected a key budget bill Tuesday, a text that was seen as crucial to restoring public finances as the country finalises an IMF bailout.
[African Arguments] Two contracts signed in Moscow give a Russian state firm the job of mapping Mali's subsoil and building the system that will hold the data. The accounts published so far do not say who will own it....
[AI London] Malian authorities must urgently disclose the fate and whereabouts of lawyer and pro-democracy politician Mountaga Tall and his son Cheick Mamadou Tall, Amnesty International said six months after their abductions....