Tag: Mali

African countries have hiked defence spending in the last two years in response to growing insurgency, threats to stability and economic development and the...

Mali's main political party signalled the end of the West African country's rare system of consensus-based politics by declaring that it would...

An official ceremony announced the international military exercises dubbed "Flintlock 10" to be supervised in the Malian capital city, Bamako by United...

Senior United Nations officials on a joint mission to Mali have lauded the country for its progress in expanding HIV prevention, treatment,...

Al Qaeda's North African wing released French hostage Pierre Camatte, Mali's government said yesterday, in an apparent prisoner swap that has angered...

Mauritania has temporarily recalled its ambassador to its northwest African neighbour Mali in a row about Mali releasing a Mauritanian Islamist from...

Al Qaeda's North African wing has extended a deadline for the life of a French hostage it is holding, the group poses...

A US official is warning that Latin American narcotics rebels have teamed up with al-Qaeda elements in Saharan Africa and now pose...

Mali believes three Spanish aid workers who went missing in Mauritania last month are being held on its territory by al Qaeda's...

The African Union Peacekeeping Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) says the government of Mali is considering sending military experts to the headquarters of...

Al Qaeda's wing in North Africa said three Spanish hostages and a Frenchman they are holding were in good health and being...

France asked its citizens to leave northern and eastern Mali immediately because of an increased militant threat after a Frenchman was kidnapped...

Malian authorities have launched an investigation into whether a Boeing 727 cargo plane, thought to have been carrying a large amount of...

Niger's government will lift a security alert that has been in place in the country's north for more than two years after...