Insurgency-hit Mali receives more warplanes from Russia ...Kuwait

Mali on Tuesday received five military jets and a combat helicopter from Russia, which has become a close ally in its fight against a long-running jihadist insurgency, an AFP journalist saw. The head of the military junta, Assimi Goita, joined Russian diplomats at a ceremony for the handover of five L-39 and Sukhoi-25 jets and an Mi-24P helicopter. The Soviet-era warplanes are the latest batch of deliveries under close ties that have been forged since the Sahel state underwent a coup in August 2020. In a speech, Defence Minister Sadio Camara paid tribute to what he called Mali's "win-win partnership with the Russian Federation". The new deliveries "strengthen our rec

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