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Economic Prowess Dominates Diplomatic Precision: An Overview of King Mohammed VI’s Tour of Africa South of the Sahara
Increasingly in recent months, international politics has been split down the red line of foreign policy--a demarcation dividing the EU and the US from...
African integration and a new president for Mali: a tale of two necessary transitions
As the world is witnessing the surprisingly smooth political transition in Mali, Morocco is not only determined to speed up the pace of its...
International Experts meet on military intervention in Mali
International experts met in Bamako on Tuesday to firm up plans for an armed intervention to wrest northern Mali from the hands of Islamic...
North Mali Islamist rape and brutality badly increases
Islamists group who have take over the deserted North of Mali and imposing the Sharia in the region are becoming more and more brutal.
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UN prepared a resolution in Mali
The UN Security Council is about to implement draft resolution paving the way for the military involvement in Mali on Friday.
The resolution seeks for...
Islamist in Mali buys child soldiers
Senior UN official report that Islamists rebels who have held part of Mali are increasing money from ransoms and drug trafficking as they are...
The civil society wants to propose solution
For over two days now a sitting has been organized to analyze and look for proposed and solution to the political and military crisis...
Copam opposed to foreign intervention in Mali
A protest has been organized on September 28 in Bamako by the patriotic organization coordinators demanding the releases of Malian weapons blocked in ports...
Mali: Islamist Armed Groups Spread Fear in North
(Nairobi, September 25, 2012) – Three Islamist armed groups controlling northern Mali have committed serious abuses against the local population while enforcing their interpretation...
Northen Mali: Corporal punishment multiply against The population
Civilians are bearing the brunt of the conflict in northern Mali, as Islamists continue their reign of terror against those they claim do not...
The west african state community prepares military intervention arrangements
For intervention in northern Mali, the Malian authorities and (cedeao) have agreed to logistics cooperation. Ministers of Defence, Foreign Affairs and African Integration of...
Northern Mali’s ‘city of saints’ suffers rebel fury
History dating as far back as the 5th century is literally being chipped away with pick axes and shovels at the hands of an...
Northern Mali’s “city of saints” suffers rebel fury
History dating as far back as the 5th century is literally being chipped away with pick axes and shovels at the hands of an...
Libya: Gaddafi and his Mali-Chad Tuareg mercenaries
As an international intervention to stop Colonel Muammar Gaddafi from committing further atrocities against Libyans continue, the north African country's leader remains impassive and...
Tuareg and AQIM: The unlikely jihadist bedmates
Last September, the abduction five Europeans sparked a hue and cry. Tuareg in the Sahel region were accused of operating in concert with Al...
African coalition to fight Al-Qaeda in Sahel formed
A meeting in Algeria on Sunday saw the Chiefs of Defence Staff from Algeria, Mali, Mauritania and Niger agreeing to join forces to fight...
Algerian terrorist attack kills several
11 police border guards (GGF) were killed in the fatal attack in the town of Tinzaouatine in the Tamanrasset wilaya, near the Mali-Algerian border,...
Vieux Farka Toure coming out of his father’s shadow
Ahead of the World Cup opening concert, Stefan Simanowitz meets a musician about to perform the biggest set of his life
There is a saying...
Water partnership initiative begins in Ethiopia, India, Brazil and Mali
The Columbia Water Center (CWC), based at Columbia University’s Earth Institute in New York, is focused on sustainable development projects throughout the world, including...
FAO steps up aid to Sahel pastoralists: Poor rains impact food production in Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso and Mali
FAO is stepping up aid to herders and pastoralists in Niger and Chad amid a growing food crisis caused by last year's poor rains...
Mali Remains a Country of Emigration and Transit, IOM Migration Profile Confirms
A migration profile of Mali released today finds that this landlocked West African country remains essentially a country of emigration, although increasing numbers of...
Niger-Mali: ICRC to assist over 100,000 victims of violence and economic hardship
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is launching extensive assistance programmes for more than 100,000 people affected by adverse weather conditions and...
African Experts Showcase a Major Drive to Double Rice Production in Response to Burgeoning Consumer Demand:
With memories of the devastating global rice price crisis fresh in their minds, experts from Africa and beyond, meeting in Mali from 22-26 March,...
Algeria and Mali in diplomatic row after terrorist release
Pierre Camatte, a Frenchman who was abducted last November in Mali, was released on Tuesday. But at what cost? Algiers has accused Bamako for...
CAN 2010: Mali seeks sanctioning of Angola and Algeria
The Malians are a disappointed lot. The shameful draw between Angola, the host country, and Algeria, qualified for the World Cup, has eliminated them...
CAN 2010: Algeria is back in line
A goal from Halliche in the first half had indeed allowed the Algerians to hope for a future in this 2010 CAN in Angola....
CAN 2010: Algerian camp’s infighting and departures to boost Mali?
Algerians need to make up for their humiliating goalless encounter with a surprisingly strong Malawi (3-0). But Mali has the necessary arsenal to thwart...
CAN 2010: Angola-Mali – Fourth power
What a spectacular start for this twenty-seventh African Cup of Nations! Trailing by 4-0, the Eagles of Mali closed the gap in impeccable style...
Mali’s prostitution gold mines a transit point to Europe?
Bars of a new genre are flourishing in Sanso since Morila gold mine opened in 2001 in Mali. The keepers of the place...
Mali-Mauritania-France-Spain: Al Qaeda claims European kidnappings
A spokesman claiming to represent Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) had claimed responsibility for the kidnappings last month of four Europeans in Mali...