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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 ...
Loud explosions again rock northern Mali's Timbuktu near U.N. peacekeeper bases
Several loud explosions rocked the northern Mali city of Timbuktu on Sunday near military bases where one U.N peacekeeper was killed and seven French troops were wounded last weekend by Islamist militants, a resident and a U.N. source said. The U.N. source said that the ...
15 militants, one peacekeeper killed in attack on U.N. Timbuktu base: France
Around 15 militants have been killed in an attack on a United Nations base in northern Mali's historic city of Timbuktu, the French military told AFP on Sunday. The U.N.'s MINUSMA force said one of its peacekeepers had been killed in Saturday's four-hour rocket, mortar ...
Shoya Nakajima capped his national team debut with a last-minute equalizer as Japan salvaged a 1-1 friendly draw with Mali on Friday. The 23-year-old striker, currently on loan with Portuguese club Portimonense, came on at the hour-mark. He displayed a knack for finding space among ...
Mali mourns for 48 who drowned in single day trying to reach Europe
Flags flew at half-staff in Mali on Thursday as the government announced 48 of its citizens drowned in the Mediterranean on a single day over the weekend, all trying to reach Europe. The West African nation accounted for the fifth-largest contingent of arrivals to Italy ...
Gunmen kidnap and later kill five workers laying fiber-optic cables in Mali
Four Malians and a Togolese working for a Chinese telecom firm were kidnapped and murdered while laying fiber-optic cables in central Mali, multiple sources told AFP on Sunday. The group was working a few dozen kilometers from the town of Niafunke on Friday when they ...
The Islamic militants came on motorcycles toting rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns, killing four American service members after shattering the windows of the unarmored U.S. trucks. In this remote corner of Niger where the Americans and their local counterparts had been meeting with community ...
