France won’t delay Mali withdrawal despite killings
Reuters France won’t delay Mali troop reductions despite killings PARIS/BAMAKO (Reuters) – France will stick to the timetable for its troop withdrawal from Mali despite a resurgence in violence and the...
View ArticleMali – Belgian security official killed in Bamako bombing;
BBC Alex Duval Smith reports from Bamako: ”Mali has been the scene of Islamist attacks – there is every reason to believe this is another one” Five people have been killed in a machine-gun and grenade...
View ArticleMali – Tuareg rebels reject peace deal
Reuters Mali rebels reject U.N. peace deal after talks with protesters Mon Mar 16, 2015 BAMAKO (Reuters) – Rebels in northern Mali have rejected a U.N.-brokered preliminary peace deal after...
View ArticleMali – pro-government militias leave key northern town ahead of peace deal
Reuters BAMAKO | BY TIEMOKO DIALLO Pro-government militias withdrew from a flashpoint town in northern Mali on Friday, removing a key obstacle to a long-delayed U.N.-backed peace deal due to be signed...
View ArticleMali – seven killed and three Russian pilots kidnapped in hotel attack
BBC BAMAKO | BY ADAMA DIARRA Suspected Islamist militants attacked a hotel in central Mali used by United Nations staff on Friday, killing at least five people and exchanging fire with troops...
View ArticleMali hotel siege
BBC Malian forces patrolling Sevare – January 2013 There is a military presence in Sevare but the town has not seen fighting before Gunmen in Mali have killed at least five people in an attack on a...
View ArticleMali – 12 dead as hotel siege ends
Al Jazeera Twelve people including a South African and another foreigner were killed in a hostage siege at a hotel in central Mali that ended when government troops stormed the building, the army said....
View ArticleMali – clan conflict within Tuareg an obstacle to peace deal
Reuters GAO | BY EMMA FARGE The leader of the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), Mohamed Ag Najim (R), leads his men in prayer outside Anefis, Mali, August 26, 2015. The United Nations has...
View ArticleMali – two UN peacekeepers killed in Kidal
BBC Mali unrest: Kidal attack kills two UN peacekeepers Two United Nations peacekeepers have been killed in a car bomb blast in the north-east Malian town of Kidal. The blast hit a bank guarded by the...
View ArticleMali – UN peacekeeping base in Timbuktu attacked
Reuters BAMAKO Unknown assailants attacked a U.N. peacekeeping base and a Malian army checkpoint on the outskirts of Mali’s northern city of Timbuktu early on Friday, residents and military sources...
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