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Mali – sacking of PM could complicate intervention and solution to crisis
IRIN Bamako — Mali’s coup-triggered political crisis that has seen half the country seized by Islamist militias deepened with the arrest and resignation this week of interim Prime Minister Cheick...
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UN backs Mali intervention force
BBC Thousands of refugees fled the fighting in the north of Mali The UN Security Council has authorised an African-led military force to try to oust Islamists from northern Mali. The council...
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Mali – children reportedly fighting for Islamist groups
IRIN Children involved in Mali fighting Photo: Katarina Höije/IRIN Children who in 2012 joined militia training camps to fight against rebel groups (file photo) BAMAKO/DAKAR, 17 January 2013 (IRIN) –...
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Mali conflict: France aiming for ‘total reconquest’
BBC There are now some 2,000 French troops in Mali France’s military aim in Mali is its “total reconquest”, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has said. “We will not leave any pockets” of...
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Mali conflict: French troops ‘seize’ Diabaly, Douentza
BBC Watch Mark Doyle report from the frontline with French soldiers in Mali French and Malian troops have seized the key Malian towns of Diabaly and Douentza from militant Islamists, the French...
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Mali – Ansar Dine and Azawad movement reported to have split
BBC Ansar Dine Islamists ‘split and want talks’ Alghabass Ag Intalla is an ethnic Tuareg from the strategic town of Kidal One of the Islamist groups fighting in northern Mali has split and wants...
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Mali’s Dioncounda Traoré rules out talks with Islamist Ansar Dine
RFI Dioncounda Traoré AFP PHOTO /ERIC FEFERBERG In an exclusive interview with RFI, Mali’s interim president ruled out talks with Islamist groups who ruled the north for nine months, but said he was...
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Mali – what do the Tuareg want
This is a fascinating and thoughtful piece – I have kept the anglicised spelling in the title. KS Andy Morgan What do the Touareg want? February 1, 2013 ANALYSIS: Secular nationalist? Loyalist?...
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Senegal detains “terrorist” suspects while US calls for teamwork against al...
Reuters (Reuters) – Senegal has detained a Mauritanian and a Malian for suspected terrorist links, its government said on Friday, and a top U.S. defence official called for international teamwork to...
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Mali Islamists claimed to have recruited child soldiers from schools
AP By KRISTA LARSON | Associated Press View PhotoAssociated Press/Jerome Delay – In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 18, 2013, children attend a class in a madrassa in Gao, northern Mali. Nearly a...
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Mali – Tuareg have strong negotiating position in peace talks
DW/allAfrica Malian Government Eyes Compromise in Peace Talks Photo: Site officiel du Ministère français de la défense- EMA / armée de Terre Troops in Northern Mali Mali’s government is looking to...
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UN forces use helicopters to attack rebels in northern Mali
Reuters DAKAR (Reuters) – Dutch United Nations attack helicopters carried out air strikes on Tuareg rebel forces in northern Mali on Tuesday, the first such engagement by Dutch forces serving in the...
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Mali’s Tuareg MNLA hit by suicide bomb attacks
BBC Tuareg rebels have been in conflict with the government since independence Suicide bombers and armed attackers have killed about a dozen people in an assault on rebel positions in northern Mali,...
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Mali – UN urges northern Tuareg rebels to sign peace deal
Reuters BAMAKO (Reuters) – The United Nations is urging Tuareg-led rebels to sign a proposal on the future of northern Mali, calling it an important step towards peace in the violent region. The deal,...
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Mali – UN peacekeepers repel rebel attacks in Timbuktu
BBC Tuareg rebels have been in conflict with the government since independence Mali crisis Timbuktu waits for peace dividend 19 February 2014 World stars seek to revive Mali’s music 14 October 2013...
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French claim killing of jihadist leaders in Mali
BBC Two jihadist leaders killed in Mali, says France Hundreds of French troops are in the region as part of a counter-terrorism operation French special forces have killed four jihadists, including two...
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Mali – 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...
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Mali – ten government soldiers killed in attack on northern base
Reuters Unidentified gunmen killed 10 Malian soldiers at the Gourma Rharous base in northern Mali on Monday, an army official said. “The provisional death toll is 10 dead on the army side,” said...
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Mali – will Western war on terror work in Africa?
Mail and Guardian Military intervention may not be the best answer to terrorism in nations such as Mali. To inspect every corner of the vast Sahara Desert and root out Islamic terrorist groups once and...
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Mali – Islamist group attacks Tuareg MNLA rebels
Reuters BAMAKO Islamist fighters killed 10 Tuareg rebels in two attacks near northern Mali’s border with Algeria this week in a growing wave of violence, Tuareg officials said on Saturday. Six fighters...
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