November 26

• Mali: PM Plans Military Intervention

  Mali's Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra has arrived in Paris for talks with senior officials to plan a military intervention to regain control of the country's north from... Read more »

November 22

• Mali: Islamist Mujao Group Claims Kidnapping of French Citizen

  The Mujao, one of the Islamist groups occupying northern Mali, on Thursday claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of a French citizen two days ago. Read more »

November 21

• Mali: French Hostage Kidnapped in West

  A seventh French citizen has been kidnapped in the Sahel as France backs west African preparations to intervene in the Islamist-controlled north of Mali. President François... Read more »

November 15

• Mali: U.S. Africom Will Consider Requests for Military Intervention Support

  US Africom is expecting to be asked to provide support for West African military intervention in northern Mali, a top US General said on Wednesday. According to US intelligence,... Read more »

November 14

• Mali: 'French Troops Won't Go to Mali'

  President François Hollande has categorically ruled out a French military intervention in Mali on Tuesday. France will not intervene "under any pretext" in the north of the... Read more »

November 12

• West Africa: Hollande Pledges Support As Ecowas Meets to Endorse Mali Intervention Force

  A west African summit opened in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, on Sunday, set to agree a plan for military intervention in northern Mali. In France President François Hollande... Read more »

October 25

• Mali: African Union Ends Mali Suspension

  The African Union has readmitted Mali after suspending it from the pan-African bloc following a March coup. Read more »

October 23

• Mali: France to Send in Drones - Report

  France is to send surveillance drones to back up west African intervention in northern Mali and is meeting top US diplomats in Paris this week to discuss the fighting the Islamist... Read more »

October 14

• North Africa: France Calls for Release of AQIM Hostages

  French President François Hollande has told Al-Qaida kidnappers in Mali to free six French hostages "before it is too late" after one of their leaders declared that their... Read more »

October 13

• Mali: Military Intervention Looms, But Not Soon

  The planned west African intervention force in Mali is not expected to be there before the end of the year, despite the UN Security Council passing a French resolution calling for... Read more »

September 20

• Mali: Al Qaeda Threatens to Kill French Hostages

  Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim) has threatened to execute six French hostages if France intervenes militarily in northern Mali in a message published on a Mauritanian... Read more »

September 19

• Mali: Hollande Denounces Timbuktu Destruction At Opening of Islamic Art Wing in Louvre

  French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday denounced the "unfathomable stupidity" of Islamist radicals who destroyed Muslim shrines at Timbuktu in northern Mali. Read more »

August 13

• Mali: 50,000 Rally for Peace

  More than fifty thousand Malians gathered for a peace rally in the capital, Bamako, on Sunday, convened by the country's top religious leader. Analysts see this as a strong sign... Read more »

August 11

• Africa: Video Shows French Hostages Alive

  Mauritania's Sahara Media published on Friday a video of five French hostages, who were kidnapped by the North African Al-Qaeda branch in Mali and Niger over the past two years. Read more »

August 6

• Mali: Journalist Beaten After Preventing Islamist Amputation

  A Malian radio presenter was in "intense pain" in hospital in Gao on Monday after a severe beating by Islamists who control the northern Mali town. The beating appeared to be... Read more »

July 31

• Mali: Unmarried Couple Stoned to Death

  An unmarried couple in Northern Mali, were stoned to death on Sunday. It is the first reported sharia killing since Islamists have occupied the area following a power struggle with... Read more »

July 29

• Mali: West Africa Lukewarm on French Intervention

  West African countries have given an unenthusiastic response to Laurent Fabius's calls to take part in a military intervention in Mali during the French foreign affairs minister's... Read more »

July 15

• Africa: African Union Summit Opens in Addis Ababa

  African Jihadism is gripping Africa, said African Union Commission Chairperson Dr. Jean Ping at the opening of the 19th AU Summit in Addis Ababa on Sunday. Read more »

July 9

• Mali: Timbuktu's Destruction Revealed in Pictures

  RFI's Moussa Kaka is among the first journalists with an international media organization to report from Timbuktu since it fell to Islamist fighters last week. Read more »

July 8

• Mali: West African Leaders Call for War Crimes Probe in North

  The top Ecowas mediator, Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore, told the meeting of politicians, religious and trade union leaders that a new government must "confront the... Read more »

July 7

• Mali: West African Leaders Seek Unity Govt

  Leaders of the West African bloc, ECOWAS, are holding a summit on Mali in Burkina Faso that will seek to put together a national unity government tasked with tackling the crisis in... Read more »

July 6

• Mali: Exclusive - Eyewitness in Islamist-Held Timbuktu

  Timbuktu is a ghost town, the first international journalist to enter the city since it was taken over by the Islamist militia Ansar Dine reports. Residents have fled the... Read more »

• Algeria: Who is Running Algeria 50 Years After End of French Rule?

  The UN threatens shrine-destroyers in Mali but won't send in the troops. West Africans and are set to discuss Islamist armed groups. Who is running Algeria 50 years after the end... Read more »

June 25

• Mali: Pro-Azawad Demonstrators Take Mali's Conflict to French Parliament

  Mali's stormy politics spilled onto the streets of Paris on Saturday when supporters and opponents of a breakaway Tuareg state in the north tried, calling itself Azawad, to win the... Read more »

June 11

• Mali: French President Warns of Terrorists in North

  There is a risk of "terrorist" groups setting up in the deserts of northern Mali, French President Francois Hollande warned on Monday, after talks with Niger's President Mahamadou... Read more »