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Mali gets new prime minister after forced ouster
Mali's interim president has named a replacement prime minister after soldiers behind a coup earlier this year forced out his predecessor and placed ...
Mali's PM forced to resign, after arrest by junta
Soldiers arrested Mali's prime minister and forced him to resign before dawn on Tuesday, showing that the military remains the real power in this ...
Mali's PM resigns, after being arrested by junta
Mali's prime minister presented his resignation on state television in a broadcast at 4 a.m. local time, hours after soldiers who led Mali's recent ...
Mali: Demonstrators call for military intervention
Police say that Malians demonstrated for an international military intervention to regain control of the country's north, which is currently ...
Islamists push secular Tuaregs into Mali desert
Islamists in northern Mali say they have pushed the secular Tuareg rebels out of a northwestern town and into the desert and now control the main Mali ...
French citizen kidnapped in southwest Mali
A French citizen has been kidnapped in southwest Mali, far from the northern zone controlled by al-Qaida-linked militants that African countries are ...
Mali: Girl in Timbuktu whipped for speaking to men
A teenaged girl received 60 lashes in Timbuktu after Islamist extremists convicted her of speaking to men on the street. The girl, about 15 years old, ...
Talk of N. Mali intervention grows, no action soon
Before Islamists seized the northern half of Mali, Mamadou Sekere sold masks and jewelry in Timbuktu to European tourists who rode camels and slept ...
UN report: Gbagbo allies reached out to Islamists
A new report from U.N. experts accuses exiled allies of Ivory Coast's former president of trying to recruit Islamist rebels who took control of the ...
Mali Islamists becoming more repressive, report
Radical Islamists in control of northern Mali are becoming "increasingly repressive," amputating limbs, whipping people in the streets and stoning to ...
Massacre of preachers in Mali sign of broken army
It was dusk when the aging Toyota pickup truck pulled into the first military checkpoint, loaded with at least 17 bearded men fingering prayer beads.
North Mali robber describes Shariah amputation
Speaking from his hospital bed, a young man whose hand and foot were amputated this week by the radical Islamic group controlling northern Mali ...
Bodies of preachers killed in Mali repatriated
The bodies of nine of the Muslim preachers killed last week in neighboring Mali were repatriated to Mauritania on Wednesday, and the president of ...
16 moderate Muslim preachers killed in Mali
Sixteen Muslim preachers from a moderate sect were shot dead in central Mali as they traveled by road to a religious conference, the Malian and ...
Confusion in Mali, after request for military help
Days have passed since Mali's interim government made a formal request to neighboring nations for military help to try to take back the country's ...
CORRECTION: Mali-Lashing story
In some versions of a story published on Aug. 31 about the whipping of a man in northern Mali, The Associated Press erroneously reported that 30,000 ...
Rebels claim to have killed Algerian diplomat
Members of a radical Islamic group in northern Mali are claiming to have executed one of the Algerian diplomats they kidnapped five months ago, when ...
Islamist rebels seize control of Douentza
Islamic extremists seized control of the strategic town of Douentza on Saturday, moving much closer to government-held territory in central Mali, ...
Mali: Man lashed in Timbuktu for rape
Witnesses say that a man accused of rape in the northern Malian city of Timbuktu received 100 lashes, as the Islamists controlling the city continue ...
Accused rapist gets 100 lashes in northern Mali
Witnesses say that a man accused of rape in the northern Malian city of Timbuktu received 100 lashes, as the Islamists controlling the city continue ...
Mali announces new govt 5 months after coup
Mali's interim leaders announced a new government late Monday, months after a military coup unleashed political chaos that allowed an Islamist ...
Mali Islamists cut off suspected thief's hand
Officials in Mali condemned Islamist militants on Friday for chopping off a man's hand for allegedly stealing sheep, the punishment underscoring ...
Mali president returns home after beating attack
Mali's interim president returned home Friday, two months after seeking medical treatment in France when he was badly beaten by protesters who back ...
Radical Islamists in Mali enlist new militia
Al-Qaida-linked radical Islamists in northern Mali have enlisted new fighters from a tribal militia to strengthen their grip on the region, according ...
How 1 man derailed 20 years of democracy in Mali
On the morning three months ago when the fate of Mali was irrevocably changed, Mamadou Sanogo awoke in the house here where he and his wife had raised ...