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At least 31 people have been killed and eight more injured as a result of terrorists’ attack on a bus…
Ten troops were killed in Mali’s troubled central region early on Wednesday when their camp came under attack from jihadists,…
Gunmen kidnapped about 20 people in volatile central Mali, with nine remaining in detention Wednesday after their captors released the…
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Unidentified gunmen have attacked a base for UN peacekeepers in the northern Mali town of Kidal, a peacekeeper at the…
Two people suspected of having links to a siege at a luxury hotel in Mali’s capital Bamako earlier this month…
Mali’s president has questioned claims that al-Mourabitoun, an al-Qaeda linked group, was responsible for last week’s assault on a luxury…
Malian security forces were hunting on Saturday for at least three at-large suspects involved in the brazen attack on a…
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has declared a 10-day state of emergency after the attack on a luxury hotel in…
Mali was under a state of emergency on Saturday after a brazen siege by gunmen at a five-star hotel killed…
An alleged al-Qaeda-linked leader has been handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to face charges of aiding the…
In January 2013, a large part of northern Mali was under the control of Ansar Dine and the rule of…
Separatist rebel fighters on patrol after seizing territory 1.9 million people need food assistance Inter-rebel clashes cause displacement Insecurity hampers…
In a classroom at a school for the blind in Mali’s capital Bamako, pupils quietly follow a French lesson taught in braille but it is clear they are impatient to get outside to play football. On the school grounds is a dusty red dirt pitch where three…
Mali was in crisis Thursday after admitting it had lost the flashpoint town of Kidal to Tuareg separatists in a humiliating defeat forcing the government to call for an “immediate ceasefire”. Ministers have not revealed how many lives have been lost…
Mali’s new Prime Minister Moussa Mara formed a government, with the outgoing foreign minister becoming reconciliation minister as the deeply-divided nation recovers from months of ruinous conflict. Former planning minister Mara, 39, was promoted to…
Mali’s new prime minister said on Wednesday he was forming a government which would prioritise security and reconciliation as the deeply-divided nation recovers from months of ruinous conflict. Former planning minister Moussa Mara, 39, was promoted…
A robber was killed during a bungled raid by an armed gang at the private residence of former Malian president Alpha Oumar Konare in the country’s capital, police and a guard told AFP on Saturday. Konare, who was head of state from 1992 to 2002, was…
NOMBORI, 16 January 2014 (IRIN) – The region around Bandiagara, in central Mali’s Mopti Region, is struggling to cope with…