The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad — the Tuareg group's name for northern Mali — appears to have taken advantage of a French-led bombing and ground campaign to dislodge al Qaeda-linked ...

Mali is known — if it is known at all — for being one of the world's poorest and most inhospitable countries. The country, roughly the size of Texas, has a lot of desert and Africa's hottest city, ...

SEBHA, Libya (AP) — Swathed in a white turban and robes, Eissa Abdel Majid sits in his militia barracks on the edge of the desert describing a losing battle to stem the flow of armed militants with ...

BAMAKO (Reuters) – At one point during her four years in the hands of jihadist militants in northern Mali, French aid worker Sophie Petronin said she felt like giving up hope. She wandered into the ...

Paris, Jul 25 (EFE).Paris, Jul 25 (EFE). — French President François Hollande confirmed Friday that there were no survivors among the 116 passengers and crew of the Air Algerie jet that crashed in the ...

A herd of desert elephants searches for water in the drought stricken Gourma region of southern Mali in a file photo. REUTERS/Jake Wall By Emma Farge DAKAR (Reuters) - About a fifth of Mali's rare ...

ON JANUARY 16th three dozen heavily armed Islamic extremists seized control of a gas plant in the Saharan desert near In Amenas, taking some 650 workers hostage. Their subsequent battle with Algerian ...

NORTH OF TIMBUKTU Mali (Reuters) - If the French army and its allies are to keep al Qaeda at bay in the desert of northern Mali they must stop them seizing the biggest prizes in the sea of white sand ...

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