Bamako: Mali’s interim Prime Minister Cheikh Modibo Diarra on Friday announced that negotiations with the armed groups, Tuareg separatist MNLA and the Islamist group Ansar...
Bamako: Mali’s Islamist rebel group Ansar Dine, which jointly controls the country’s north, said that it was not interested in proclaiming an independent state but...
Bamako: An Al-Qaeda offshoot in Mali which is holding seven Algerian hostages said that negotiations to free them were “advancing” and they had received medication...
Geneva: The United Nations (UN) Security Council on Wednesday held back support for an African intervention force in Mali, where rebels and Al-Qaeda allies have...
Bamako: National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (NMLA) on Sunday announced that it has put together a council to govern the territory under rebel...
Paris: Niger’s President Mahamadou Issofou said on Thursday that Afghan and Pakistani jihadis were training recruits for extremist groups in northern Mali, the latest sign...
Bamako: Top members of Tuareg-led Malian rebel group MNLA ditched on Friday a week-old pact with al-Qaeda-linked Islamists to turn the country’s north into an...
Bamako: Malian paramilitary police on Friday questioned three leaders of a pro-coup coalition which called a protest during which the country’s transition president Dioncounda Traore...