November 13

• Mali: Will Prime Minister Resign?

  West African heads of state have restated their determination that no member of Mali's transitional government will be allowed to stand in the country's next presidential election.... Read more »

November 4

• Mali: U.S. Impatient With African Response to Northern Mali Conflict

  Despite growing western concerns about the continuing reign in northern Mali by an Al Qaeda-linked group, analysts here say it will take months before conditions could be ripe to... Read more »

September 27

• Mali: Security Council Debates Deploying Force in North

  The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday began to debate a plan to deploy West African peacekeeping troops to tackle the six-month Islamist insurgency in northern Mali. Read more »

September 12

• Mali: Farmers Want Their Land Back

  A group of smallholder farmers in Mali have turned to the courts to try to recover land they say they have lost to big private investors. The legal action comes as foreign... Read more »

• Senegal: Polygamy Throttles Women in Senegal

  Fatou (40), Awa (32) and Aissatou Gaye (24) sit in a meditative mood on the tiled floor outside their matrimonial home in Keur Massar, a township in the Senegalese capital Dakar. Read more »

August 14

• Mali: Q&A - Military Action in Mali Would Be a 'Huge Risk' [interview]

  Military action by West African states against the insurrection in northern Mali would be extremely risky without diplomatic support from neighbouring Algeria and Mauritania,... Read more »

July 23

• Mali: Super Cereal for Mali's Malnourished Children

  Millet has become the basic ingredient for an enriched flour at the heart of an effort to establish a local, sustainable response to malnutrition in Mali. Read more »

July 13

• Mali: U.S. Commits 10 Million for Refugees As Intervention Talk Builds

  President Barack Obama on Thursday authorised the release of 10 million dollars in emergency funding to help with the refugee crisis stemming from continued violence in northern... Read more »

June 12

• Mali: Northerners Fear Islamic State

  Tuareg and Islamist rebel groups which seized control of northern Mali in March are trying to find common ground for the joint administration of the territory. Read more »

June 1

• Mali: Calls Mount for U.S. Intervention

  The ambassador of Niger to the United States, Maman Sidikou, on Thursday called on the U.S. to step up military collaboration with African countries to support a potential... Read more »

May 25

• Mali: Food Aid Taking Too Long to Reach Needy

  Her neat, bright yellow headscarf matches the rest of her outfit, but contrasts with her weary expression. Sokona Soumounou sits a little apart from the crowd queueing for... Read more »

May 18

• Mali: U.S. Calls On Junta to Withdraw From Politics

  U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson says Malian soldiers who overthrew the government on Mar. 22 have neither the right to remain in power nor the... Read more »

May 7

• West Africa: Ecowas Softens on Regional Crises But Holds Big Stick

  Regional leaders meeting in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, on May 3 appeared to slightly retreat from their positions against coup leaders in Guinea-Bissau and Mali, but the... Read more »

May 4

• Mali: Child Soldiers Used in Conflict

  It was tough for Hassan Toure to decide to stay in his small town on the outskirts of Kidal, in northern Mali. The government troops had withdrawn on Mar. 30, and several armed... Read more »

May 1

• Mali: Nation Heading Closer to Civil War

  Since January, various groups of Tuareg rebels in Mali have come together in an attempt to administer a new northern state called Azawad. Read more »

April 25

• Mali: Refugees Face Food Crisis in Niger

  It was the middle of the day when Tabisou, 72, suddenly saw people from her town of Amderamboukane in Mali fleeing for their lives. Her family had no time to pack their things; the... Read more »

April 24

• Mali: 'Drastic Increase' in Rapes in North, Says Rights Activist

  Increasing numbers of Malian women are being raped by Tuareg rebels and armed groups that have swept across the north of Mali since the beginning of year, expelling all government... Read more »

April 20

• Mali: Civilians Govern, the Junta Rules

  Cheick Modibo Diarra has been named interim prime minister of Mali as a transitional administration takes shape, to guide the country back to full constitutional government. But... Read more »

April 19

• Mali: Azawad - the Latest African Border Dilemma [analysis]

  On Apr. 6, Tuareg rebels in the West African city of Timbuktu unilaterally declared their independence from Mali and announced the birth of a new nation called Azawad. The... Read more »

April 10

• Mali: Tuareg Fighters Declare Mali Ceasefire

  A spokesman for the main Tuareg rebel group, which recently seized the three largest areas in Mali's north, says it has declared a ceasefire, one day after the United Nations... Read more »

March 31

• Mali: Junta Appeals for Help In Response to Ultimatum

  West African heads of state meeting in Côte d'Ivoire have given Mali's military junta three days to restore constitutional order and step down - or face a range of diplomatic... Read more »

March 28

• Mali: Neighbours to Confront Coup Leaders

  Mali's neighbours have threatened to use sanctions and a readiness to use military force to dislodge those behind last week's coup, urging them to quickly hand back power to... Read more »

March 25

• Mali: Junta Courts Civil Society

  A majority of political representatives have so far maintained their distance from the leaders of a coup that toppled the government earlier this week, but several religious and... Read more »

March 23

• Mali: Mutiny 'Topples' President Toure

  Renegade Malian soldiers say they have ended the rule of President Amadou Toumani Toure after seizing control of the presidential palace and the state television station in the... Read more »

February 21

• Mali: Niger - Strained Welcome for 15,000 Refugees

  The little village of Chinagoder, on the Niger-Mali border, has become a refugee camp, flooded with Malian families fleeing fighting between their regular army and Tuareg rebels... Read more »