Thirteen French helicopter troops killed in Mali combat operation
Thirteen French soldiers fighting jihadists in Mali were killed in an accident between two helicopters, the French presidency said on Tuesday, the single biggest loss...
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Mali says 54 killed in militant attack on army post
At least 53 soldiers and one civilian were killed in a militant attack on a military post in northern Mali on Friday, the government said....
Mali president Keita wins re-election with 67 pct of vote
Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita won re-election with 67 per cent of the vote in a run-off against opposition rival Soumaila Cisse, the Ministry of...
Gunmen attack resort outside Mali’s capital, two dead (Update 2)
Gunmen on Sunday attacked a luxury resort popular with Western expatriates just outside Mali’s capital, Bamako, killing two people in what the security minister called...
Islamist rebel gets 9 years imprisonment for Timbuktu destruction
War crimes judges on Tuesday sentenced a former Islamist rebel who admitted wrecking holy shrines during Mali’s 2012 conflict to nine years in prison, in...
Five U.N. soldiers killed in central Mali attack
Five United Nations peacekeepers were killed and one other seriously injured in an ambush in central Mali on Sunday, the United Nations said. A convoy...
Three dead, 30 wounded in Islamist attack on U.N. base in Mali (Update 1)
Three U.N. peacekeepers were killed on Friday and 30 others were wounded when a U.N. base in the northern Mali town of Kidal was attacked,...
Swiss woman kidnapped from Mali’s Timbuktu, army spokesman says
A Swiss woman was kidnapped overnight from a house in the northern Mali city of Timbuktu, a spokesman for the Malian army, Souleymane Maiga told...
Man said to be Cypriot told BBC he was in hotel gym when Mali attack began
A Cypriot man working in Bamako, was able to escape the hostage situation on Friday morning when a jihadist group attacked Radisson Blu hotel in...
Crisis role boost for France’s Hollande may not last long
French President saw his approval ratings jump after his firm handling of the Charlie Hebdo killings in January and may find them rising again in...
At least 27 dead after Islamists seize luxury hotel in Mali’s capital (Update 4)
By Tiemoko Diallo Around 27 people were reported dead on Friday after Malian commandos stormed a hotel seized by Islamist gunmen to rescue 170 people, many...
Gunmen attack hotel in central Mali, one dead
At least one person was killed in an attack early on Friday by unidentified gunmen on a hotel in central Mali frequented by United Nations...
At least three killed in rocket attack in north Mali- sources
Unknown attackers fired dozens of rockets towards a U.N. base on the outskirts of the north Malian town of Kidal early on Sunday, killing at...
Militants kill five in attack on restaurant in Mali capital
By Adama Diarra Militants killed five people including a French citizen and a Belgian citizen in a gun attack on a restaurant in the capital...
Last French hostage freed by Al Qaeda’s north African arm
By Alexandria Sage and Abdoulaye Massalaki President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday that the last French citizen held hostage, a 50-year-old man seized in 2011...
Mali quarantines dozens after Ebola kills second victim
By Joe Penney Authorities in Mali quarantined dozens of people on Wednesday at the home of a 25-year-old nurse who died from Ebola in the...
Wreckage of Air Algerie plane carrying 116 people found in Mali
By Hamid Ould Ahmed and Tiemoko Diallo Authorities said on Thursday they located the wreckage of an Air Algerie flight after it crashed in northern...
Al Qaeda claim for French journalist killings ‘plausible’- minister
By Nicholas Vinocur Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb’s (AQIM) claim of responsibility for the killing of two French journalists in northern Mali last week...