Follow @{0} Malians returning from displacement face deep financial difficultiesBAMAKO, 28 March 2014 (IRIN) – Displaced Malians who have recently…
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Nigeria came perilously close to defeat but grabbed an extra time victory over Morocco while Zimbabwe trounced favourites Mali to book their places in the African Nations Championship semi-finals Saturday. Aliyu Ibrahim scored the extra time winner…
Zimbabwe tore the form book apart when they stunned favourites mali 2-1 in an absorbing Chan quarter-final encounter at Cape…
NOMBORI, 16 January 2014 (IRIN) – The region around Bandiagara, in central Mali’s Mopti Region, is struggling to cope with…
Mali started their 2014 African Nations Championship campaign on a winning note when they defeated West African rivals Nigeria 2-1…
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…
US President Barack Obama ended his vacation in sunny Hawaii and boarded Air Force One for a flight back home to chilly Washington. Obama arrived in his native Hawaii on December 21 along with his wife Michelle and daughters Sasha, 12, and Malia, 15…
Thousands of Yahoo.com visitors were served with malicious software due to a security breach on the Yahoo ad network.
One person was wounded Saturday when an improvised bomb exploded in the Kenyan capital, police said, in a shop in Nairobi’s mainly ethnic Somali district Eastleigh. The attack is the latest of a series of bomb or grenade blasts in Kenya. “One person…
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…
The Westgate mall attack in Kenya was a reminder of the challenges that still face the least predictable of continents
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 20, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Prof. Amos Claudius Sawyer, former President of Liberia’s Interim Government of…
ABUJA, Nigeria, November 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The ECOWAS Commission will present Mali with about half a million…
MBERA/BASSIKOUNOU, 19 November 2013 (IRIN) – Since April, when the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) started biometric registration of the Malian…
ABUJA, Nigeria, November 18, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — ECOWAS is to deploy twenty (20) members of its Emergency Response…
LONDON, United-Kingdom, November 14, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — – First initiative to be delivered in partnership between GSK and…
BAMAKO, 14 November 2013 (IRIN) – Explosives experts are clearing Malian villages of weapons left over from the recent conflict.…
MBERA, 11 November 2013 (IRIN) – Nomadic or semi-nomadic populations often struggle when hemmed into refugee camps. They are…