Tag: Mali

The African Union (AU) is made up of 55 member states, divided into five geographic regions defined by the Organization ...

South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party led by Julius Malema has saluted Captain Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso, Colonel ...

Mali ruling military junta on Monday, September 25 called off presidential elections that were to take place in February 2024. ...

Paris' defense minister on Sunday condemned the latest instalment of Marvel's Black Panther franchise, which depicts French troops caught trying ...

At least ten soldiers died in an ambush by a group of "armed terrorists" in southwestern Niger, close to the ...

Foreign ministers from three West African countries that have undergone military coups met in Burkina Faso on Thursday on the ...

Six senior Malian military officers, including the army chief of staff and head of the national guard, were relieved of ...

Burkina Faso's prime minister, in a visit to neighboring Mali this week, has suggested the two countries form a "federation" ...

A powerful Al-Qaeda-affiliated leader in the Sahel has been in secret talks with armed groups in northern Mali which, like ...

With anti-France feelings running high in many of its former colonies in West Africa, Paris is being forced to retreat ...

Mali's military rulers received more warplanes and helicopters from Russia Thursday, an AFP correspondent noted, the latest in a series ...

Forty-six Ivorian soldiers detained in Mali since July departed the capital Bamako on Saturday, a day after being pardoned by ...

Forty-six Ivorian troops whose detention by Mali triggered a bitter diplomatic row went on trial at a court of appeal ...

An Ivory Coast delegation arrived in Mali on Thursday for talks on a five-month-old row sparked by the detention of ...

A Malian mother who gave birth to nine babies in Morocco last year returned home on Tuesday with her infants, ...

West African leaders agreed on Sunday to create a regional force to intervene against jihadism and in the event of ...

Amnesty International's secretary general on Friday called for new "enlightened" political leadership in Africa, lamenting shrinking civil liberties in Mali, ...

Mali's security situation has become "significantly worse" due to the ruling junta's choices, including an alleged decision to partner with ...

Three United Nations troops were killed, and three others wounded by a roadside bomb in northern Mali on Monday, the ...

On a sandy street in a northern Malian town, armed guards take turns at a checkpoint next to two unmarked ...

Ivory Coast on Wednesday accused Mali of "blackmail" over 46 Ivorian troops who have been detained by Bamako and called ...

Twilight settles on Bamako, and traffic starts to clog the roads on the banks of the mighty Niger River in ...

Mali's junta said France no longer has a "legal basis" for carrying out military operations in the country after Bamako ...

For nine years, France was Mali's staunchest ally in its fight against jihadists who have claimed thousands of lives and ...

Mali's ruling junta announced on Monday it was breaking off from its defence accords with former colonial ruler France, condemning ...

Mali on Tuesday accused the French army of "spying" and "subversion" when it used a drone to film what France ...

A Malian army helicopter fired several rockets "close to" British members of a UN peacekeeping force in the country, the ...

A group of Malian political parties has called for an investigation into the "very troubling" death of ex-prime minister Soumeylou ...

The head of France's anti-jihadist mission in the Sahel on Friday said French forces that were being pulled out of ...

Dozens of civilians and members of a Tuareg rebel group that signed a peace deal with the government have been ...