Mali News
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While Ukraine, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan dominate the news cycle, conflicts rage across the globe with little or no media coverage. These are the wars that aren’t being covered by Western media outlets.
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New York -
The Security Council extended for another year the UN mission in Mali, calling on it to prioritize efforts to facilitate peace talks and expand its presence in the north.
In the Media
by AFP
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Algiers -
Three armed groups from northern Mali announced in Algiers on Sunday that they have agreed to begin talks with the Bamako government aimed at resolving long-standing disputes.
In the Media
by AFP
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UN peacekeeping missions should deploy more drones and state-of the art technology to become more effective, limit boots on the ground and keep aid workers safer, their chief said Thursday.
In the Media
by AFP
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UN peacekeeping missions should deploy more drones and state-of the art technology to become more effective, limit boots on the ground and keep aid workers safer, their chief said Thursday.
In the Media
by AFP
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Bamako -
After France intervened in Mali, the Islamists who had been occupying the area were driven into the hinterland and the main towns came under government control. However the city of Kidal and some other northern areas are again controlled by Tuareg rebels.
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Dakar -
The Mali government and the three main rebel groups operating in the northern desert signed a ceasefire deal Friday, the United Nations announced."A 21:30 (local time and GMT)...
In the Media
by AFP
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New York -
Tuareg rebels have made further advances in northern Mali and have seized two towns, Kidal and Menaka, the United Nations confirmed on Thursday.
In the Media
by AFP
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Bamako -
Mali's president called for a ceasefire in the restive north of the country and ordered three days of mourning as Tuareg separatists claimed they captured more than a key desert bastion after slaying several soldiers.
In the Media
by Serge Daniel (AFP)
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New York -
The UN Security Council called for an immediate end to violence in northern Mali after more than 30 people were killed in fighting between rebels and the army in a flashpoint town.
In the Media
by AFP
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Bamako -
Mali has sent 1,500 troops to retake the rebel stronghold of Kidal after Tuareg separatists staged a siege in local government offices, sparking a gun battle in which dozens of people were killed.
In the Media
by AFP
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Bamako -
Mali's Prime Minister Moussa Mara warned the country was "at war" with terrorists in the northern city of Kidal, after clashes between separatist militants and the army left dozens dead.
In the Media
by Serge Daniel (AFP)
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Paris -
France said Thursday it will deploy 3,000 soldiers to combat Islamist violence in the vast and largely lawless Sahel region of Africa.
In the Media
by AFP
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Bamako -
One of Mali's top jihadist groups said on Tuesday a French hostage it had kidnapped in November 2012 was dead.
In the Media
by Serge Daniel (AFP)
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Bamako -
Mali said on Tuesday it was clear of the Ebola epidemic suspected to be behind around 130 deaths this year in Guinea and Liberia.
In the Media
by AFP
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Bamako -
Mali's new Prime Minister Moussa Mara formed a government, with the outgoing foreign minister becoming reconciliation minister as the deeply-divided nation recovers from months of ruinous conflict.
In the Media
by AFP
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Bamako -
Mali's first post-war prime minister has been replaced just six months into office after he announced the resignation of his entire government, a statement from the presidency said.
In the Media
by Serge Daniel (AFP)
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Bamako -
Several west African countries geared up on Friday to tackle killer haemorraghic fevers including Ebola, which has claimed more than 80 lives in Guinea, as suspect cases emerge in Mali, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
In the Media
by Serge Daniel with Zoom Dosso in Monrovia (AFP)
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Monrovia -
Liberia said it was dealing with the first case of suspected Ebola to have originated within its own borders, unconnected to the epidemic raging in neighbouring Guinea, as Mali also detected three suspected victims.
In the Media
by Zoom Dosso (AFP)
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Bamako -
Mali said Thursday it had detected three suspected victims of Ebola, the deadly disease that has killed 84 people in Guinea."Three suspected cases of haemorrhagic fever have been detected in the country.
In the Media
by AFP
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Paris -
President Francois Hollande Tuesday said France was on guard after a militant Islamist website called for his assassination in revenge for intervening militarily in Mali and the Central African Republic."This is not the first time that there have been ...
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Bamako -
A leading Islamist militant group has kidnappped a team of Red Cross workers in northern Mali who had been reported missing, an official from the jihadist group said on Tuesday.The members of the International Committee of the Red Cross team "are alive...
In the Media
by AFP
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Bamako -
Community leaders gathered in Mali Thursday to mark an international day of campaigning against female genital mutilation, publicly renouncing a practice that is still legal in the deeply-conservative west African nation.
In the Media
by AFP
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Bamako -
A French counter-terrorism offensive in rebel-infested northern Mali ended with 11 Islamist militants killed and a French soldier wounded, military sources inside the operation told AFP.
In the Media
by Serge Daniel (AFP)
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The continuing violence in the Central African Republic has caused many neighboring states to repatriate their citizens in recent weeks. What started as a trickle is now becoming a mass exodus, as deteriorating humanitarian conditions worsen.
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Al-Qaeda's affiliate in North Africa has claimed responsibility for the killing of two French journalists in northern Mali.
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Bamako -
After the French drove Islamists out of northern Mali, Tuareg separatists who had supported the French re-established effective control in some areas particularly in the city of Kidal
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Bamako -
None of the 27 candidates in the recent Mali presidential election managed to achieve a majority. A runoff between the two top candidates will be held on August 11.
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Bamako -
A Ph D candidate in political science at Purdue University, Salif Niang writes in Al Jazeera of the coming election in Mali as taking place in an atmosphere of hope in spite of many difficulties and uncertainties.
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Bamako -
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon requested that Mali's upcoming election results should be respected even though the vote may be "imperfect"
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Government militia forces in training in Mali
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Children in school in Mali.
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Magharebia
Islamist rebels in Mali
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A street scene in Timbuktu, Mali
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Militants in Mali.
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Wikipedia
A French Dassault Rafale fighter jet.
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Wikimedia Commons - Orionist
The Mali conflict zones of control as at 26 January 2013
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screengrab / paul george
Al Qaeda commander Abou Zeid killed in Mali
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French Ministry of Defence, Official Media
French troops embark for Mali on a Royal Air Force Boeing C-17 transport from Evreux Air Base in Northern France, January 2013
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Sgt. Matthew McGregor / Combat Camera
Canada's C-17 heavy-lift military transport plane touched down on Malian soil carrying a French military armoured vehicle among other equipment
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