Tuareg and Arab groups clash in northern Mali

BAMAKO, April 26 (Xinhua) -- The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), a Tuareg separatist group controlling Mali's extreme northeastern town of Kidal, is blocking trucks going to deliver fresh supplies to the town of Menaka. The ...

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said during his visit to Mali on Friday that Tuareg rebels within the MNLA must disarm "when the time comes". He also reassured Mali that France was not planning an "overnight" withdrawal of its troops. Tuareg ...

As the war to rid Mali In the cities of Gao In recent days, the MNLA separatists, mostly of ethnic Tuareg heritage, and who a year ago aggressively set themselves up in the north and more recently collaborated with Islamic radicals, have begun to ...

Rebels from the pro-autonomy MNLA have been handing out the security documents, stamped in name of the Azawad Republic they proclaimed last year, to drivers of vehicles in and around their northern stronghold of Kidal. The Tuaregs re-occupied the ...

Soldiers from the Tuareg rebel group MNLA sit in a pickup truck in the northeastern town of Kidal in February. — Reuters INAIS VALLEY, Mali — Like a pair of hunting dogs, two pick-up trucks packed with Tuareg soldiers race across the savannah, ...

Talks will resume soon between the Malian government and an ethnic Tuareg rebel group whose influence has been growing in the country's north, Burkina Faso's foreign minister says. No immediate date was given for the negotiations, announced on ...

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 ...

Algiers - An Algerian court sentenced 14 Malian members of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) to 20 years' jail for arms smuggling and entering the country illegally, El Khabar daily reported on Monday. The Malians, who were ...

Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series on Tuareg politics in northern Mali. Part I examined the factors shaping internal political development among Mali's Tuareg community. Part II examines the factors shaping external relations ...