Mali: MUJAO says Algerian hostage executed
Bamako: Islamist extremists occupying northern Mali Sunday claimed that they executed an Algerian diplomat kidnapped five months ago, after the government failed to fulfill the...
Rebels in Mali
Mali: ‘Ansar Dine’ wants sharia not independence
by Areeb Hasni
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...