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Russia will ship food and fuel to Mali in coming weeks

Mali expects Russia to send shipments of fuel, fertiliser and food worth around $100 million to Mali in the coming weeks, the West African...

JNIM: Al Qaeda affiliate claims attack on Mali military base

Al Qaeda's affiliate in Mali claimed responsibility on Saturday for an attack on the country's main military base, which it said was a response...

After coups in Mali and Burkina Faso, will Niger be next?

Speculation that Niger may become the next Sahel nation to suffer a coup has surged since Burkina Faso underwent a putsch last week, less...

Mali in turmoil as strongman ousts transitional leaders

The announcement marks the latest crisis to hit the vast, impoverished West African country, which is already struggling with a brutal insurgency

Mali says 54 killed in militant attack on army post

At least 53 soldiers and one civilian have been killed in an attack on an army post in northern Mali

Meghan Markle backs better access for women to higher education

Meghan Markle, who is visiting southern Africa with Harry and their four-month-old son Archie, is herself a university graduate and women’s rights advocate

Bomb explodes under bus in Mali, at least 14 killed

A makeshift bomb exploded under a passenger bus traveling in the violence-plagued central Mali region of Mopti on Tuesday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 24, the security minister said.

12 dead in Mali building collapse

Twenty-six people were rescued alive from the partially occupied building after it collapsed just before dawn.

Nearly 100 killed, 19 missing in central Mali village massacre

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the massacre, targeting a village inhabited by the Dogon community

Armed assailants kill eight UN peacekeepers in Mali

U.N. peacekeeping are stationed in northern Mali to combat well-armed militant groups seen as the gravest threat to security across Africa’s Sahel region.

Militants attack African military base in Mali, six dead

BAMAKO: Militants armed with rockets and explosives raided the headquarters of an African military taskforce in central Mali, leaving at least six people dead...

Four U.N. peacekeepers killed in two separate attacks in Mali

BAMAKO: Four United Nations peacekeepers and a Malian soldier were killed and 21 people were wounded in two separate attacks by unknown assailants in...

Mali militant jailed for nine years over war crimes for Timbuktu destruction

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS: War crimes judges on Tuesday sentenced a Malian militant to nine years in jail for destroying the fabled shrines of Timbuktu, in a landmark ruling experts hope will help safeguard the world's vulnerable monuments.

UNESCO chief sees threat from cultural destruction

KABUL: The world community has yet to find an adequate response to cultural destruction as shown by the deliberate wrecking of ancient sites in Syria and Mali by Islamist radicals, the head of the UN's cultural organization said.

At least 27 dead after gunmen seize luxury hotel in Mali’s capital

BAMAKO, MALI: At least 27 people were reported dead on Friday after Malian commandos stormed a luxury hotel in the capital Bamako with at least 170 people inside, many of them foreigners, that had been seized by Islamist gunmen.

Twelve dead as Mali hotel siege ends, hostages freed

BAMAKO: Malian security forces on Saturday stormed a hotel used by United Nations staff and freed four hostages held there by suspected Islamist militants during a nearly 24-hour siege in which 12 people died.

Three Europeans shot dead in Mali restaurant

BAMAKO: Three Europeans and two locals were shot dead on Saturday in a busy restaurant in the Malian capital in what security sources described as a terrorist attack.

Guinea qualifies, Nigeria out of Africa Cup

ABUJA: Ebola-ravaged Guinea joined Ivory Coast, Mali, Ghana and DR Congo in qualifying for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations on Wednesday but defending champions Nigeria crashed out.

Tunisian army base attacked, one soldier killed by militants

TUNIS: A Tunisian soldier was killed after Islamist militants tried to storm an army base early on Sunday in the town of Sbitla near the Algerian border, the Tunisian government said on Sunday.

Wreckage of Air Algerie plane found in Mali

ALGIERS/BAMAKO: Authorities said on Thursday they located the wreckage of an Air Algerie flight after it crashed in northern Mali carrying 116 passengers and crew, nearly half of them French, en route from Burkina Faso to Algeria.

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