Browsing: Mali News

France will cut its troops in Mali to 1,600 by the middle of next month from the current level of 2,500, President Francois Hollande said Wednesday. Speaking at an airbase in Creil in northern France, Hollande said the “situation is well under control…

President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita wished 15 million Malians “peace, nothing but peace” as he delivered a New Year greeting Tuesday at the end of one of the most turbulent years in the west African nation’s history. “I only want peace, nothing but peace…

14 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council have strongly condemned an attack in the north-eastern Malian…

Tuareg demonstrators on Thursday occupied an airport runway to prevent Mali’s Prime Minister Oumar Tatam Ly visiting the rebel-controlled northeastern town of Kidal, officials said. Protesters said Malian soldiers shot and wounded three of the demonstrators…

ABUJA, Nigeria, November 22, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Head of ECOWAS Election Observation Mission, Prof. Amos Sawyer has appealed…

GENEVA, Switzerland, November 22, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM Somalia has brought together 41 Somali diaspora experts from Canada,…

NAIROBI, Kenya, November 22, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Somali authorities arrested two journalists, one of them the victim of…

WASHINGTON, November 22, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directorstoday approved an International Development Association…

GAROWE, Puntland, November 21, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Nicholas Kay visited…

ABUJA, Nigeria, November 20, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Prof. Amos Claudius Sawyer, former President of Liberia’s Interim Government of…