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In Mali, a journalist stabbed for his critical reporting

March 12, 2013 1 comment

NEW YORK, March 12, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – Authorities in Mali must investigate an attack on a critical radio journalist that came two weeks after he received threats warning him to...

Christian Aid says escalating violence in northern Mali is fuelling hu...

January 27, 2013 no comments

The recent escalation of fighting and the subsequent displacement of people within Mali and to neighbouring countries is exacerbating the Sahel’s chronic food crisis and contributing to ever-rising l...

US Special Forces inspect weapons in Mali in 2007 - Credit - The US Army- CC

No hiding place for rebels in Mali as the U.S. prepares support for Fr...

January 19, 2013 no comments

WASHINGTON, Carey L. Biron (IPS) - U.S. Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta has applauded France’s surprise airstrikes on Islamist rebels in northern Mali that began late last week and continued over t...

AU-EU set for military intervention in Mali

October 27, 2012 1 comment

The African Union (AU) and its European counterpart, the EU, have in principle agreed on a joint-planning military intervention to oust rebels in northern Mali at a high-level meeting in Paris last w...

Tuareg rebels from the Movement for the National Liberation of Azawaad...

May 5, 2012 no comments

NIAMEY,William Lloyd-George (IPS) – It was tough for Hassan Toure to decide to stay in his small town on the outskirts of Kidal, in northern Mali. The government troops had withdrawn on Mar. 30, and ...

Malians Face Cocaine Charges in The United States

January 1, 2010 no comments

Three men have been charged with plotting to transport tons of cocaine across Africa with the help of Al Qaeda. The three defendants all of them from Mali, were arrested in Ghana on Wednesday and flo...