Un concern over those fleeing Malian fighting
BBC Africa The UN says the number of Malian refugees fleeing to neighbouring countries to escape fighting between Tuareg rebels and the military has doubled over the past 10 days. More than 44,000...
View ArticleMali: France urges dialogue to end northern conflict
RFI France’s Foreign Affairs Minister Alain Juppé continued his African tour on Sunday with a visit to Mali. There, he met with President Amadou Toumani Toure on the crisis in the northern part of the...
View ArticleMali junta appeals for help against rebels
Reuters Africa By David Lewis and Adama Diarra BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali’s junta leader appealed on Friday for outside help to secure the West African country after separatist Tuareg rebels took the...
View ArticleAU rejects Mali rebels’ independence declaration
Reuters Africa ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – The head of the African Union Commission rejected on Friday a declaration of independence by rebels in the north of Mali and called on the rest of the world to...
View ArticleMali Islamists push Tuareg further out into desert
AP BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — 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 towns bordering Mauritania...
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Reuters (Reuters) – Senior Malian government officials will meet separatist and Islamist rebels for their first face-to-face talks on Tuesday, but Bamako’s rejection of both groups’ demands means swift...
View ArticleMali – need for political restructuring and diplomacy as well as intervention
Africa Focus AfricaFocus Bulletin Jan 15, 2013 (130115) (Reposted from sources cited below) Editor’s Note “Three things emerge from the haze. First, fierce fighting in the North and the East, with...
View ArticleMali – what do the Tuareg want
This is a fascinating and thoughtful piece – I have kept the anglicised spelling in the title. KS Andy Morgan What do the Touareg want? February 1, 2013 ANALYSIS: Secular nationalist? Loyalist?...
View ArticleMali – children forced to fight, detained with adult prisoners and tortured
Amnesty International Children in Mali, some as young as 13, are being detained with adults, recruited as child soldiers and tortured. © SIA KAMBOU/AFP/Getty Images Children in Mali, some as young as...
View ArticleMali signs peace deal with Tuareg
18 June 2013 Last updated at 20:59 Mali and Tuareg rebels sign peace deal Tuaregs have a long history of fighting the government in Mali Mali’s government has signed a peace deal with Tuareg rebels to...
View ArticleMali – gun battle between troops and separatists in Kidal
BBC Tuareg rebels are said to resent the return of Malian soldiers to the northern city and former rebel stronghold of Kidal A gun battle has erupted between Malian soldiers and suspected separatist...
View ArticleMalian Army launches offensive to retake Kidal
Reuters Mali army launches offensive against separatist northern town By Adama Diarra and Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO Wed May 21, 2014 (Reuters) – Mali has launched a military offensive on Wednesday to...
View ArticleMali – war continues with separatists in the north
IRIN Analysis: Adversity in northern Mali By Katarina Höije Photo: Katarina Höije/IRIN Separatist rebel fighters on patrol after seizing territory HIGHLIGHTS 1.9 million people need food assistance...
View ArticleMali – government and Tuareg groups exchange prisoners
BBC Mali and Tuareg rebels swap prisoners ahead peace talks The MNLA is fighting for the independence of northern Mali Mali’s government and Tuareg rebels have exchanged prisoners in a goodwill gesture...
View ArticleMali – Tuareg have strong negotiating position in peace talks
DW/allAfrica Malian Government Eyes Compromise in Peace Talks Photo: Site officiel du Ministère français de la défense- EMA / armée de Terre Troops in Northern Mali Mali’s government is looking to...
View ArticleFrnech forces hit rebels in northern Mali
BBC France bombs Islamists in north Mali French forces have been fighting militants in northern Mali since January 2013 French forces have bombed Islamist militant positions in northern Mali. Four or...
View ArticleBan condemns attack on UN Mali base, declares it ‘will not deter’ peace efforts
UN News Service Malian refugees, carrying their belongings, approach UNHCR vehicles that will carry them to a camp in Burkina Faso. This was one of the major population displacements of the year....
View ArticleNo justice or peace in northern Mali
IRIN No justice, no peace for northern Mali Photo: Chris Simpson/IRIN Old rivalries in the desert BAMAKO, 13 October 2014 (IRIN) – Thousands of northerners who experienced human rights abuses during...
View ArticleUN forces use helicopters to attack rebels in northern Mali
Reuters DAKAR (Reuters) – Dutch United Nations attack helicopters carried out air strikes on Tuareg rebel forces in northern Mali on Tuesday, the first such engagement by Dutch forces serving in the...
View ArticleMali – ceasefire with MNLA and MAA to allow peacectalks
Reuters (Reuters) – Mali’s government and an alliance of Tuareg-led northern rebels agreed to cease hostilities on Thursday to ease tensions during U.N.-sponsored peace negotiations aimed at ending...
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