Mali News

Malian soldiers point their AK-47 rifles during a training session given by a French army officer in Koulikoro May 7, 2013.

Soldiers from the Tuareg rebel group MNLA drive in a convoy of pickup trucks in the northeastern town of Kidal, Mali, Feb.

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Zimbabwean PM Morgan Tsvangirai has set the tone for his party's election campaign, saying the terrain "will be determined by those that are able to give answers to Zimbabwe's challenges". Bamako - Relatives say Mohamed Ould Ali, an employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross, has been arrested in Mali's capital.

France's first lady Valerie Trierweiler began a tour of Mali on Thursday with a visit to Gao, one of several northern cities liberated by a French-led military operation against an Islamist occupation.

We are speaking on 15 May while the Mali donor's conference is still ongoing. This country has suffered massive destruction to its cultural heritage by Islamists, before the French intervention.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, right, welcomes Mali's President Dioncounda Traore upon his arrival at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday May 14, 2013.

To date, the ICRC has provided more than 1.5 million litres of fuel to keep power stations running in Gao, Timbuktu and Kidal.

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says his party MDC has a "more robust future than the archaic Zanu-PF", adding he is ready for the forthcoming elections in Zimbabwe later this year.

File photo: Chadian soldiers patrol the streets of Gao, in northern Mali. A sixth French soldier has been killed in Mali amid security operations there.

Three Emiratis arrested in Tanzania after a deadly attack on a church there a week ago have been freed and are back home, a report says.

BAMAKO, Mali An official in northern Mali says three people are dead after a man opened fire on a crowd.

A radical jihadist group in northern Mali that ruled the town of Gao for nearly a year says it was behind the latest suicide attacks.

A radical jihadist group in northern Mali that ruled the town of Gao for nearly a year says it was behind the latest suicide attacks.

Mali is in the final stages of preparation for an assault on the northern provincial capital of Kidal, the last rebel-held town in the country's north, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.

Senegal President Macky Sall urged the countries of Africa's desert north on Friday to remain vigilant against the threat of Islamism which he said remained despite the French military intervention in Mali.

Academics and government, military and civil society representatives gathered for a conference in the Senegalese capital this week to assess the interplay between development and violent extremism in West Africa, with some participants suggesting that underdevelopment, marginalization and weak governance create a breeding ground for militancy.

Members of al Qaeda's Shumukh al Islam forum announced on May 4 that four Egyptian jihadists died in a "martyrdom-seeking" operation in Mali, according to the SITE Intelligence Group.

Mother's Day is coming up! If you're a mom to young children, that doesn't mean you get the day off.

It's been nearly a year-and-a-half that Noelle Hunter's daughter, Maayimuna N'Diaye, 5, has been gone, but she is far from forgotten! "Yes, we are getting it ready for Mommy's baby!" Hunter beams while straightening her youngest daughter's room.