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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 ...
EU condemns Israel over settlements
The European Union warned Israel of unspecified consequences Monday if it goes through with plans to build thousands of new settler homes in Jerusalem ...
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 ...
US military planners focused on Mali intervention
U.S. military planners are working closely with African nations in advance of an offensive to wrest control of northern Mali from al-Qaida linked ...
African leader aims for Mali mission in early 2013
U.N.-mandated African forces could intervene early next year to dislodge al-Qaida-affiliates from their new stronghold in northern Mali, Ivory Coast's ...
Islamist sect in Nigeria grows more deadly
The radical Islamist fighters gather around piles of weapons and ammunition they've stolen and shout praises to God as they shoot into the expanse of ...
Mali separatists, Islamists make key pledges
Ethnic Tuareg rebels have agreed to stop pursuing a separate state in Mali's north, while one of the extremist Islamist groups in the area has pledged ...
US military: Intervention in Mali now would fail
The top US military commander in Africa warned Monday against any premature military action in Mali, even as he said that al-Qaida linked extremists ...
Leader of al-Qaida unit in Mali quits AQIM
An Algerian-born jihadist who heads one of the most powerful and feared cells of al-Qaida's North African branch has decided to leave the al-Qaida ...
Niger's president vows to help Mali
Niger's president says his country is ready to help Mali regain its northern region which is occupied by Islamist rebels. Niger President Mahamadou ...
African Union asks UN for immediate action on Mali
In an open letter Thursday to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the president of the African Union urged the U.N. to take immediate military action ...
Mali: 6 young people get 100 lashes in Timbuktu
Timbuktu residents say that Islamist extremists controlling the city publicly whipped 6 young people, males and females aged between 16 to 22 years, ...
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 ...
Frenchman kidnapped in Mali asks gov't for help
A French national who was kidnapped by an al-Qaida-linked extremist group in Mali appeared on a video published this weekend and made available on ...
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: Tuareg rebels lose their last base in north
Islamist extremist rebels say they have pushed secular Tuareg fighters from Menaka, their last base in northern Mali. Oumar Ould Hamaha, spokesman of ...
EU endorses Syrian opposition
The newly formed Syrian opposition coalition received backing from the European Union on Monday in a significant vote of confidence for a movement ...
Mali: Fighting resumes in north between rebels
Rebel spokesmen confirm that fighting has resumed in northern Mali between Islamist extremists and Tuareg secular rebels. Oumar Ould Hamaha, spokesman ...
Mali: Islamist attack secular rebels in north
Fighters from one of the al-Qaida-linked rebel groups controlling northern Mali on Friday attacked a position held by a secular rebel group, in the ...
France urges Mali to step up talks with rebels
France's president called Thursday for stepped-up talks between Mali's government and any leaders from its breakaway north "who reject terrorism," ...
Mali militants say they will not give up Shariah
One of the three al-Qaida-linked groups currently controlling northern Mali said Wednesday it would not give up its harsh form of Islamic law, ...
African Union asks UN to authorize Mali deployment
The African Union is asking the United Nations Security Council to endorse a military intervention to free northern Mali from Islamist extremists ...
France rules out any use of air power in Mali
Neither France nor Europe will intervene militarily to oust al-Qaida and its allies from northern Mali — not even with air strikes, the French defense ...