At least 14 reported slain in attack on ethnic Dogon villages in Mali
At least 14 people were killed in an attack on two ethnic Dogon villages in central Mali, local officials said Tuesday. No group immediately claimed responsibility for Monday's attack but Mali has seen a spate of violence this year between ethnic Dogon and Fulani communities. The ...
At least 95 feared dead in new ethnic massacre in central Mali
Unknown assailants killed at least 95 people in a central Mali village overnight, government officials said Monday, the latest massacre in a growing ethnic conflict driven by fear and suspicion over alleged ties to extremist groups once limited to the West African country's north. There ...
Son of French hostage abducted in Mali in 2016 denounces Paris government inaction
The son of an elderly French woman abducted in Mali has accused Paris of refusing to talk to her abductors, in comments published Sunday that were disputed by French authorities. Armed jihadis abducted Sophie Petronin on Dec. 24, 2016, in Gao, northern Mali, where she ...
30 jihadis reported 'neutralized' in French-Malian raids near Burkina Faso
French and Malian troops killed or captured more than 30 extremists and dismantled a jihadist training camp during a major counter-terrorism operation near Mali's border with Burkina Faso, the French military told AFP on Friday. The operation is the first since French forces set up ...
Terror stalks Mali massacre village amid fears attackers will return
Eleven-year-old Amy raises her left arm to show where a bullet grazed her side, and from deep within her, a boundless distress comes out in great sobs. The girl's life was plunged into hell on Saturday when gun- and machete-toting men entered her village in ...
As violence escalates, attack by ethnic militia on central Mali villages leaves 115 dead
An attack by members of an ethnic militia on three villages in central Mali claimed 115 lives, the latest clash in an increasingly violent conflict that is fueled by Islamist extremism. Another 46 were injured in the attack on ethnic Fulani villages on Saturday morning ...
A 6-year-old girl became Mali's first open heart surgery patient on Monday, after a successful procedure performed by a team of Malian and French surgeons that was a first for the African nation. Fanta Diarra, who was diagnosed with a heart condition when she was ...
Islamic State leader killed in French airstrike in Mali: army
A top jihadi leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara group, an aide and two civilians have been killed in northeastern Mali by a French airstrike, the French command center in Paris said Monday. "Commandos deployed on the ground (after the airstrike) confirmed ...
Mali singer Khaira Arby, 'Nightingale of Timbuktu,' dies at 59
Malian singer Khaira Arby, whose vocal prowess earned her the honorific "The Nightingale of Timbuktu," has died, her family said on Monday. She was 59. One of a generation of legendary musicians from the ancient northwestern Malian city, Arby became a major voice for peace ...
U.N. position attacked as violence mars Mali presidential election
Malians voted Sunday in a crucial presidential election as attacks disrupted polling in areas already beset by deadly ethnic and jihadi violence. Counting has started in some of the 23,000 polling stations, which closed at 1800 GMT. First results are expected within 48 hours and ...
Four civilians killed, 20 wounded in Mali attack targeting French soldiers
French soldiers on patrol in troubled northern Mali were targeted in a bombing on Sunday in which four civilians were killed and over 20 people injured, Malian authorities said. In a separate incident on Sunday meanwhile, a vehicle of the Movement for the Salvation of ...
Headquarters of G5 Sahel anti-terrorism force car-bombed in Mali; two soldiers and civilian killed
The Malian headquarters of an international anti-terrorism task force, the G5 Sahel, was attacked on Friday in a car bombing, killing two soldiers and a civilian, according to a security source and a local leader. "Shortly after Friday prayers, a suicide bomber in a vehicle ...
