Gunmen killed a German man in Mali's most famous city of Timbuktu and seized three men from the Netherlands, South Africa and Sweden, AP cited officials and witnesses as saying.
The announcement came as officials on Saturday ordered a plane to (...)
Akhir 19, 1432 H/March 24, 2011, SPA -- Authorities in Mali have
arrested four people after an aircraft loaded with 10 tonnes of
cocaine crashed in the country in 2009, a source close to the
probe said on Thursday, according to Reuters.
Malian (...)
Twenty-six people, at least half of them children, were killed in a stampede near a mosque in Timbuktu, Mali.
Moulaye Sayah, who works for National Radio and Television of Mali and Mali's News Agency, both state-run, said at least 41 people (...)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy was due in
Rwanda Thursday to repair relations damaged over the 1994 genocide,
following a surprise visit to Mali where he met a freed French
hostage, according to dpa.
Al-Qaeda's north African network released (...)
In implementation of the directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to provide aid to Mali during the blessed month of Ramadan to alleviate the shortage of food stocks, the effects of drought and locust (...)
In implementation of the directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi humanitarian aid was handed over to Mali to alleviate the effects of recent drought and locust invasion of agricultural crops in (...)
Ten Malian soldiers and 17 Tuareg rebels were
killed in an attack on an army post in the north-east of the country,
the defence ministry said Thursday, according to DPA.
Radio France International reported that six soldiers were wounded
during (...)
Tuareg rebels attacked an army
camp in northeastern Mali and 17 rebels and 15 government
soldiers were killed in one of the bloodiest clashes to date in
a revolt by the desert insurgents, the government said on
Thursday, according to Reuters.
A (...)
