Mali News

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...

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.

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.

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.

Al-Qaeda's affiliate in North Africa has claimed responsibility for the killing of two French journalists in northern Mali.

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

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.

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.

Bamako - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon requested that Mali's upcoming election results should be respected even though the vote may be "imperfect"

Bamako - A state of emergency had been in place since France intervened in January to help drive out Islamist rebels who occupied the north of the country.