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Mali: President Plays Down UN Atrocities Accusations
RFI, 13 March 2013
Mali's interim President Dioncounda Traoré played down a UN report's charges that his country's troops had carried out reprisals against some ethnic groups during the… Read more »
Mali Plays Down UN Atrocities Report
As Mali's media undertakes a news blackout to protest against the jailing of a newspaper editor who published a letter alleging soldiers face poor conditions in battle, the country's interim president, Dioncounda Traoré, has played down a UN report which accuses his troops with atrocities.
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Mali: Journalist Stabbed for His Critical Reporting
CPJ, 11 March 2013
Authorities in Mali must investigate an attack on a critical radio journalist that came two weeks after he received threats warning him to resign from the station, the Committee to… Read more »
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Mali: IFJ Backs the Journalists in Mali and Calls Authorities for Dialogue With the Media
IFJ, 12 March 2013
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today has backed the Day without press that journalists in Mali have started until Boukary Daou is released. Daou who is the… Read more »
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Mali: Paper Continues to Publish, Despite Editor's Arrest
RFI, 13 March 2013
A Mali paper's still online, even though its editor is in jail. Kenyatta struggles to keep out of the International Criminal Court. Odinga dithers over challenging election… Read more »
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Mali: War Over, Now to Secure Peace
IPS, 13 March 2013
As the Malian army and its foreign partners are slowly securing northern cities in the West African nation, it is still unclear how the country will turn its back on the political… Read more »
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Mali: How Can U.S. Help Stabilize Mali's Political System?
African Arguments, 13 March 2013
Recent and still unconfirmed reports of the killings of top leaders of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb underscore tangible advances made by French and African forces in rolling… Read more »
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Mali: Retaliatory Violence by Govt Troops Escalating - UN
UN News, 12 March 2013
The recent military intervention in northern Mali has been followed by a serious escalation of retaliatory violence by Government soldiers who appeared to be targeting members of… Read more »
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Mali: Stabilising Northern Mali - Different Approaches to Peace Operations
ISS, 12 March 2013
In November 2012, M23 rebels overran the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) army's defences and captured the eastern city of Goma, raising the spectre of a new, large-scale… Read more »
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Mauritania: Mauritania Receives Mali President
Magharebia, 12 March 2013
Malian Interim President Dioncounda Traore wrapped up a two-day working visit to Nouakchott on Monday (March 11th) after solidifying bilateral relations with his Mauritanian… Read more »
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Mali: Call for Prevention of Further Atrocities After Executions
HRW, 1 February 2013
Malian government forces summarily executed at least 13 suspected Islamist supporters and forcibly disappeared five others from the garrison town of Sévaré and in… Read more »
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Mali: The Dynamics of Inter-Communal Violence in Mali
UNIRIN, 31 January 2013
Ethnic Tuaregs and Arabs in towns across central and northern Mali, including Gao and Timbuktu, have been fleeing into the desert or to neighbouring countries as their houses and… Read more »
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Mali: Summary Executions May Have Taken Place - French Minister
RFI, 23 January 2013
Malian troops may have carried out summary executions during the offensive against Islamist rebels, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told RFI Wednesday. Human rights… Read more »
