Tag Archives: Mali

AFISMA Head of Mission praises African Forces serving in Mali and else...

April 15, 2013 1 comment

BAMAKO, Mali, April 15, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission and Head of the African-led International Su...

AFISMA human rights observers arrive in Mali

April 7, 2013 no comments

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, – African Press Organization (APO) –As part of the implementation of the decisions of the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council (PSC) and the Authority of the Eco...

In Mali – Editor jailed for publishing critical story

March 20, 2013 no comments

NEW YORK, March 20, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – A journalist in Mali was charged on Monday with incitement to mutiny and publishing false information in connection with his publication o...

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...

Mali: Food aid for 24,000 people in Gao region

March 9, 2013 no comments

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 8, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – Over 24,000 people in Gao and Gounzoureye (in north-eastern Mali) have since 7 March been receiving food aid from the Mal...

358th meeting of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union (...

March 7, 2013 no comments

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, March 7, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – The Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU), at its 358thmeeting, held on 7 March 2013, in Addis Ababa, adopted t...

Statement by the spokesperson of High Representative Catherine Ashton ...

March 7, 2013 no comments

BRUSSELS, Kingdom of Belgium, March 7, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – The spokesperson of Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy...

Journalist detained by security agents in Mali

March 7, 2013 1 comment

NEW YORK, March 7, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – State security agents in Mali detained an editor today in connection with his newspaper’s publication of an open letter criticizing ...

Gun battles between Malian forces threaten ECOWAS troops efforts to en...

February 13, 2013 no comments

BAMAKO , Soumaila T. Diarra - (IPS) - Soldiers belonging to the African-led International Support Mission to Mali continue to stream into this West African nation, as several hundred troops have alre...

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...

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...

U.N. debates intervention plan to deploy West African Peacekeeping tro...

September 27, 2012 no comments

WASHINGTON, Carey L. Biron - (IPS) - The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday began to debate a plan to deploy West African peacekeeping troops to tackle the six-month Islamist insurgency in ...

Military intervention in Northern Mali is not excluded says Burkinabe ...

June 28, 2012 no comments

“A military intervention is not excluded” : said the Burkinabe foreign minister in Algiers. While Tension is still growing since the Tuaregs and Islamists jointly took control of the northern part of...

As drought and rising food prices take their toll families are eating ...

June 21, 2012 no comments

In Burkina Faso, “The drought and rising food prices have taken their toll. Many families have had to sell their livestock to cover their household food needs or they are eating the seeds that they s...

Food aid may be taking too long to reach the needy in Africa

May 28, 2012 no comments

SEGOU, Mali, Soumaila T. Diarra (IPS) – Her neat, bright yellow headscarf matches the rest of her outfit, but contrasts with her weary expression. Sokona Soumounou sits a little apart from the crowd ...