Tag: Mali

More than 20 Tuaregs killed in Mali: sources

  BAMAKO: More than 20 Tuareg civilians were killed late last week in Mali's restive frontier with Niger, security sources told AFP on Monday. "On Friday...

Mali’s top court confirms Keita as presidential election winner

  BAMAKO: Mali's constitutional court on Monday confirmed President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's re-election in a run-off ballot, rejecting fraud accusations by the opposition candidate. The decision...

Hundreds protest Mali election results marred by fraud claims

BAMAKO: More than a thousand supporters of Malian opposition leader Soumaila Cisse gathered in the capital Bamako on Saturday after he lost a presidential...

Al Qaeda-linked group claims attack on French troops in Mali

DAKAR: An al Qaeda-linked Islamist group in Mali has claimed responsibility for an attack on French troops in the northern town of Gao on...

Mali war crimes suspect in custody: International Criminal Court

AMSTERDAM: The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Saturday said it has taken into custody at its detention center in the Netherlands a Malian man...

Germany wants surveillance airships for UN mission in Mali

  BERLIN: The German military plans to beef up security for a UN peacekeeping mission in Mali by deploying a number of tethered aerostats - small...

18 dead in Mali hostage siege a week after Paris carnage

Security sources said the gunmen were militants who had entered the hotel compound in a car that had diplomatic plates

Mali crisis: Human Rights Watch condemns ethnic abuses

Both Tuareg rebels and the army in Mali have committed abuses against civilians because of their ethnic origins, a Human Rights Watch report says. The...

Mali hit by first suicide bombing

A suicide bomber has blown himself up in Mali, the West African country’s first such attack and a sign that the al-Qaeda-linked fighters are...

French forces not to stay in Mali for long: defense minister

French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Tuesday ruled out a long-term deployment of French troops in Mali following positive progress made during France's...

Hollande pledges French withdrawal from Mali

France will continue operations in northern Mali, but will hand over military operations in the country in time, President Francois Hollande has told troops...

Donors pledge millions for war-torn Mali

African leaders and international officials have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars at a donor conference in Ethiopia to support military operations against rebels...

Troops capture another town in northern Mali

French jets have bombed rebel positions as well as fuel stores and ammunition dumps near their Gao stronghold after capturing the town of Hombori...

Algeria hostage crisis justifies Mali intervention: Hollande

The Algeria hostage crisis has proved that French military intervention in Mali is right, said French President Francois Hollande. "The Algerian authorities inform me...

Fighting continues in Mali with outside troops moving in Bamako

France-backed war against rebel forces in Mali continues in the northern region of the West African nation as more supporting troops are arriving from...

Mali conflict: French troops battle Mali rebels

French troops have been fighting Mali’s Islamist rebels in street battles in the town of Diabaly, Malian and French sources say. In the first...

Chastened US takes cautious view of Mali conflict

The United States has chosen to play a cautious supporting role to France’s military action against rebel fighters in Mali, after Washington’s own attempt...