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Four months after France deployed troops to control the Islamists rebel in Mali, the process of major military withdrawal from the area reportedly started on Saturday. The control of the area will now be taken over by United Nations peacekeeping forces, who ...

Balama Mali Gubio lost phone contact with his relatives 10 days ago, like many residents in this region of Nigeria caught between a military offensive and Islamist extremist attacks. "I don't know what is happening to my parents, my brothers, my sister," the ...

China has offered to contribute troops to the new UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, where Islamist jihadists controlled the country's north until French-led troops launched an offensive in January to oust them, a UN official said. Andre-Michel ...

France's president says his country must fight harder against terrorists in Africa, after two suicide bombings apparently staged by extremists angry over the French military intervention in Mali. Francois Hollande, in a sweeping speech Friday on ...

KOULIKORO: Under a blazing sun and the critical gaze of British and Irish instructors, a line of 11 Malian soldiers lie prone in the dust firing AK-47 rounds at targets, one-by-one. One out of 10 - not very good, Captain Ibrahim Soumassa, commander ...

TIMBUKTU: There is a proverb in Timbuktu, the legendary medieval city in Mali's desert, that says: The ink of a scholar is more precious than the blood of a martyr. What Ahmed Baba, the 16th-century intellectual who said it, would make of recent ...

The Mali jihadists have vowed to avenge a French-led military intervention that ousted them from Mali's northern cities. Both attacks were claimed by a spinoff of al-Qaeda's local chapter, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, or MUJAO, said ...

TIMBUKTU: A senior Mali army officer accused France yesterday of picking favourites among the country's warring militias after its troops attacked Arab rebels who had captured a village from armed Tuaregs. The intervention came on Friday after the ...

The French military intervention in January and February this year ended the occupation of northern Mali by rebel movements and jihadists. When I was in Bamako at the end of February, organisations across the political spectrum applauded France as ...