Outgoing U.S State Department's Top Africa Official Cites 'Significant' Achievements [interview]

allAfrica

At the end of his tenure as the top Africa policymaker in the State Department, Assistant Secretary Tibor Nagy says the legacy of the outgoing administration includes a number… Read more »

CHAN - Defenders Turn Scorers As Cameroon, Mali Edge Nearer Last Eight

Vanguard

Cameroonian Salomon Banga set a trend of defenders scoring Wednesday as his country and Mali moved closer to the African Nations Championship (CHAN) quarter-finals, Burkina Faso… Read more »

What Is Female Genital Mutilation? Where Is It Practised?

Thomson Reuters Foundation

The United States has strengthened a ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) by imposing tougher penalties and making prosecutions easier - a step campaigners hope will bolster… Read more »

Digital Press Briefing with Ambassador J. Peter Pham, U.S. Special Envoy for the Sahel [interview]

State Department

Moderator:  Good afternoon to everyone from the U.S. Department of State's Africa Regional Media Hub.  I would like to welcome our participants from across the continent… Read more »

Three UN Peacekeepers Killed, Six Wounded in Attack in Mali

UN News

Three United Nations peacekeepers in Mali were killed and six others wounded in an attack on Wednesday, by unidentified armed elements, the UN mission in the country has said. Read more »

Patient Dies After an MSF Ambulance Is Detained in Mali [press release]

MSF

A Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ambulance transporting patients between Douentza and Sévaré, in central Mali, was violently stopped by armed men for… Read more »

Targeted Attack Kills Two French Soldiers

DW

The attack came just days after three French soldiers were killed in Mali by the al-Qaida-linked Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM). Read more »

Dozens of Civilians Killed in Militant Attack

DW

Niger's government says gunmen have killed more than 50 people in a suspected terror attack near the border with Mali. The onslaught comes amid election uncertainty. Read more »

Transition Presents Opportunity to Break 'Vicious Circle of Political Crises'

UN News

The current political transition period in Mali offers an opportunity to "break out of the vicious circle of political crises followed by coups d'état", the UN envoy in the… Read more »

Jonathan-Led Ecowas Team Confident Mali Will Return to Civilian Rule

This Day

After two days of meetings with Malian political and civil-society figures, the mediator for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), former Nigerian President… Read more »

Mali Charges Former PM With Coup Attempt

DW

Authorities in Mali have charged six figures, including former Prime Minister Boubou Cisse, with trying to stage a coup. Read more »

Unsung Heroes in Africa's Covid-19 Response

Africa Renewal

Thirty-two-year-old Mariam Traoré, a community health worker in Mali, starts her day with a COVID-19 self-check, including body temperature and other symptoms such as cough,… Read more »

Jonathan Confident Mali Will Meet Return to Civil Rule Deadline

This Day

After two days of meetings with Malian political and civil society figures, the mediator for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), former president, Dr. Goodluck… Read more »

Ecowas Mediator for Mali, Goodluck Jonathan, Arrives in Bamako

Vanguard

The mediator of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for Mali, former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, at the head of a high-level delegation, arrived in… Read more »

Truth Commission - 'Mali Hears You, the World Is Watching'

JusticeInfo.net

Mali's Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) held its second public hearing in the capital Bamako on December 5 under the theme "Attacks on the Right to Life and… Read more »