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Malian Forces Capture Leader of Islamist Group with Links to Troop Killings
Coffins are seen draped in Malian flags at a funeral for 17 soldiers who were killed earlier this week in Segou, Mali, July 21, 2016. Picture taken July 21, 2016. Credits: REUTERS/Mamadou Camara...
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Population Growth Extremes: Doublers and Decliners
While some countries with declining populations are averse to letting more in, history shows rapidly growing populations are not easily confined within borders. City view of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The...
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Islamist Rebel Gets Nine Years Imprisonment for Timbuktu Shrines Destruction
Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi ( a.k.a. Abu Tourab) enters the courtroom of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague the Netherlands, September 30,2015. Credit: Reuters The Hague: War crimes judges...
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Why Did South Africa, Burundi and Gambia Decide to Leave the International...
The African Union has been persuading its member nations to withdraw from the ICC over the court’s alleged institutional bias against Africa and its leaders. A general view shows the opening session of...
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Kidnapping, Burning Ballots Disturb Mali’s Local Elections
A man votes in local elections in Bamako, Mali, November 20. Credit: Reuters/Adama Diarra Bamako/Gao: Malians burned ballot boxes and one candidate was kidnapped during local elections meant to fill...
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Mali’s Tuareg Rebels Withdraw From Peace Deal
Tuareg rebels have picked up arms three times since independence in 1960. Credit: Reuters Dakar: The main separatist group in northern Mali, the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), has suspended...
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At Least 13 Killed in Ethnic Clashes in Central Mali
Cattle herder Boubacar Demba and his children tend to their cattle in Guana, outside Bamako, Mali, November 5, 2016. Credit: Reuters/Adama Diarra/File Photo Bamako: At least 13 people were killed in...
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IMF Prescriptions Have Crippled West African Health Systems
West African health systems were weak before the IMF got involved. Sadly, the policy reforms demanded by the IMF in exchange for loans have undermined governments’ ability to repair these problems. The...
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France Confident US Won’t Cut Into UN Mali Mission Needs
Former colonial power France intervened in 2013 to drive out al Qaeda-linked militants who seized northern Mali the year before French foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault delivers his speech during a...
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Macron Heads to to Mali to Keep Campaign Promise to Counter Terrorism
French President Emmanuel Macron wears a Paris 2024 pin and waves goodbye after a meeting with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Evaluation Commission at the Elysee Place in Paris, France May...
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Six Niger Security Agents Gunned Down Near Mali Border
Niger soldiers stand on guard towards the border with neighbouring Nigeria near the town of Diffa, Niger, June 21,2016. Credit: Reuters/Luc Gnago Niamey: Gunmen killed six security agents in...
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With Help From ‘Time Travel’, Malians Develop ‘Farms of the Future’
Farmer Bintou Samake plants beans while carrying her son Mahamadou on her back at a farm in Heremakono, Mali, January 22, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Joe Penney Kolondialan, Mali: Nouhoun Tigana, a farmer in...
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Al Qaeda Affiliated Alliance Claims Responsibility for Mali Attack
Police with four people rescued from the Le Campement Kangaba resort following an attack where gunmen stormed the resort in Dougourakoro, to the east of the capital Bamako, Mali, June 18, 2017. Credit:...
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France and West Africa Come Together to Launch Sahel Force
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita meets with France’s President Emmanuel Macron in Bamako, Mali July 2, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Christophe Archambault Bamako, Mali: African powers launched a new...
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Thousands Protest Referendum Giving Extra Powers to Mali President
Malians take to the streets to protest against a planned referendum on constitutional changes in Bamako, Mali, July 15, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Idrissa Sangare Bamako: Thousands of Malians took to the...
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