Mali's separatist MNLA blocks supplies to northern town of Menaka

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 ...

Rebel group National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad, which has sought independence in northern Mali, has appointed its own administrator for the Kidal region. The move shows its growing strength after a French-led operation routed

But, the new body was led by several of the same Tuareg dignitaries who earlier backed the National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad, or NMLA, a rebel group which invaded northern Mali in 2012 and

The main rebel movement in northern Mali is marking one year since it declared the independent state of Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad was forced out of its strongholds by hardline Islamist groups before the French-led ...

BAMAKO Mali's Minister for Labor and Relations with Institutions Mamadou Namory Traore blames the separatist National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) for causing all the prevailing problems in the West African country amid calls for ...

After repelling an unspecified local armed group, militants of the Arab Movement of Azawad (MAA) seized control of the north-eastern town of Ber, in the Timbuktu region. A spokesman for the group formed in July 2012, Mohamed El Maouloud Ramadane, ...

Read more about a history of a man and a movement! Now R384.00 Bamako - Officials charged with organising elections in Mali have expressed doubts over the ability of the war-torn west African nation to stage a nationwide poll in July. Mamadou ...

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council lists Syria's army and intelligence agency and an allied militia as sexual war criminals for assaults on women and children, along with the al-Qaida movement in Mali and various African rebel movements.

Mali's troubled interim president Dioncounda Traore wants to hold elections before the end of July. But, the country's Tuareg refugees, now living in Burkina Faso, have other concerns and aspirations. Naifisa Walet Nafisa sits in a large tent with ...