War Crimes Court To Award Timbuktu Damages In August
War crimes judges will next month deliver a landmark order for reparations for the razing of the fabled Timbuktu shrines ...
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Swede Held By Al-Qaeda In Mali Since 2011 Freed
A Swede held hostage by Al-Qaeda in Mali since 2011 has been freed to head home, and is doing well ...
French Forces Battle Militants In Northern Mali
French forces operating in northern Mali said Friday that they had taken "out of action" around 20 militants in operations ...
Suspected Jihadists Wreck Mali Primary School
Suspected Islamic extremists have wrecked a primary school in central Mali out of hostility to Western-style education, local administrators and ...
Two UN Peacekeepers Killed In Mali
Two UN peacekeepers were killed and a third wounded on Tuesday in an ambush in restive northern Mali, the nation's ...
Couple Stoned To Death In North Mali By ‘Islamists’
An unmarried couple were stoned to death in public in northeast Mali by Islamists, the first such known occurrence since ...
Ghanaian Soldiers Safe After Rocket Attacks On Peacekeepers In Mali – GAF
The Ghana Armed Forces has clarified that no Ghanaian soldier was affected in this week’s bomb attacks on peacekeepers in ...
UN Compound In Mali Under Attack; Ghanaian Soldiers On Alert
The UN Compound in Timbuktu, Mali where more than 100 Ghanaian soldiers are stationed has been hit by intense rocket ...
Jihadists Claim Mali Attack That Killed UN Peacekeeper
A UN peacekeeper killed in a rocket and mortar attack in Mali was identified Thursday as a Liberian soldier, as ...
Rocket Attack On UN Camp In Mali Kills One, Wounds 9
Shelling and rocket fire on a UN camp in the troubled Malian city of Timbuktu killed one person and wounded ...
Mali State of Emergency ‘extended By 6 Months’
Mali has extended a state of emergency by six months until October 31, a source in the parliament told AFP ...
Mali Extends State of Emergency As Jihadist Attacks Persist
A state of emergency that has been in force almost non-stop for 17 months in Mali was extended by 10 ...
Mali ‘Islamist Militant Attack’ Kills Five
Five Malian soldiers have been killed by suspected Islamist militants on Tuesday in the northern city of Timbuktu, BBC Afrique ...
‘Jihadists’ Kill 4 Soldiers In Mali’s North
Suspected jihadists on Tuesday killed four Malian soldiers in an attack in the restive northern region of Timbuktu, the French ...
Five Dead In Jihadist Attack In Mali
A Tuareg-led group in Mali said five of its fighters were killed Saturday in an attack blamed on jihadists, a ...
UN Security Council Adopts Resolution Protecting Heritage
The United Nations Security Council on Friday strengthened its protection of global cultural heritage sites threatened by armed conflicts, saying ...
UNESCO Raises $75.5 Mn To Protect Heritage From War, Terror
Seven countries and an American donor on Monday pledged $75.5 million (70 million euros) to a UNESCO-backed fund aimed at ...
Steps To Peace Falter In Mali’s Timbuktu As Militias Squabble
Tensions between armed groups who encircled Mali's fabled Timbuktu have prevented the head of a new regional body from taking ...
11 Malian Soldiers Killed In Attack On Border Base
At least 11 soldiers were killed in Mali on Sunday in an attack on an army base near the border ...
Long-Delayed Interim Authority Installed In North Mali
An interim authority for Mali's troubled northern Kidal region, a stronghold of the former Tuareg rebellion, was finally installed on ...