Special Report: In the land of “gangster-jihadists”
TIMBUKTU, Mali (Reuters) - A military helicopter arced through the dusty yellow haze and dropped onto the sand a few kilometers from Timbuktu on April 24, settling inside a ring...
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Leaders meet on Mali crisis but little progress made
BAMAKO/DAKAR (Reuters) - Regional leaders and international organizations met in Mali's capital Bamako on Friday to seek a response to the occupation of the north of the country by al...
Leaders meet on Mali crisis but little progress made
BAMAKO/DAKAR (Reuters) - Regional leaders and international organizations met in Mali's capital Bamako on Friday to seek a response to the occupation of the north of the country by al...
Analysis: Mali leadership limbo holds up military action plan
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Photographs of Captain Amadou Sanogo - the U.S.-trained infantry officer who toppled Mali's government in a March coup - are difficult to avoid in the capital Bamako,...
Locusts threaten African Sahel food supply next year
DAKAR (Reuters) - Locusts nesting in northern Mali and Niger threaten next year's food crop, the U.N.'s top aid official in the region said, after donors and governments across Africa's...
Locusts threaten African Sahel food supply next year
DAKAR (Reuters) - Locusts nesting in northern Mali and Niger threaten next year's food crop, the U.N.'s top aid official in the region said, after donors and governments across Africa's...
Guinea blocks arms shipment to Mali as distrust grows
DAKAR/CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea has blocked a shipment of heavy weapons to Mali fearing they could end up in the wrong hands, a Guinean official and regional diplomats said on...
Guinea blocks arms shipment to Mali as distrust grows
DAKAR/CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea has blocked a shipment of heavy weapons to Mali fearing they could end up in the wrong hands, a Guinean official and regional diplomats said on...
Mali to seek ICC probe into rebel crimes in north
DAKAR (Reuters) - Mali plans to ask the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate killings, rapes, torture, and attacks on cultural sites in its rebel-controlled north, the country's justice minister...
Analysis: Mali: the world’s next jihadi launchpad?
DAKAR (Reuters) - When Mali's Tuareg nomads launched a rebellion in January, many in Africa thought it would be just the latest in a long line of desert uprisings to...