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The Courier-Mail
| 4 months ago
UN rights chief is warning, as tensions sweep the country after a string of attacks by Islamist rebels on French-led forces...Pillay said human rights investigators from her department had started arriving in the Malian capital last week, and called...
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News 24
| 4 months ago
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (Aqap) has called for jihad in Mali, a monitoring group said on Tuesday, after four days of suicide attacks and guerrilla fighting in territory French-led forces reclaimed from Islamist rebels...Aqap condemned France'...
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Fox News
| 4 months ago
GAO, Mali Soldiers from Niger are patrolling on foot through downtown Gao and Malian troops are driving around in pickup trucks to secure the city in northern Mali. The stepped-up security presence remains two days after radical Islamic fighters...
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BBC
| 4 months ago
The government of Mali is "hesitant" over the deployment of a UN peacekeeping force, a senior UN official has said. "We do not have a clear green light from the government of Mali yet for a peacekeeping operation,'' said Deputy Secretary-General Jan...
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Qatar English Daily
| 4 months ago
The Yemen-based offshoot of Al Qaeda urged Muslims to sacrifice themselves and their money to help fend off what it called the "Crusader war" in Mali, according to a statement posted online on Tuesday. France intervened in Mali last month to check a...
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Kuwait News Top Stories
| 4 months ago
France's "Crusader campaign against Islam" has no justification and a "declaration of aggression against Islam and its people." It said jihad is "more obligatory on the people who are closer" to the fight, in an apparent reference to North African...
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The Independent
| 4 months ago
Malian troops hunted house-to-house in Gao today for Islamist insurgents whose attack inside the northern town at the weekend showed the risk that French forces might become entangled in a messy guerrilla war. Sneaking across the Niger River under...
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IRIN
| 4 months ago
Some 6,500 people fled Gao (above), Kidal and Menaka to reach towns near the Algerian border (file photo)...They fled to Tin Zaouatene area in Mali's north-eastern Kidal region. Most of them are from Kidal, Gao and Menaka in the north of the country.
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BBC
| 4 months ago
French forces battled Islamist militants in Gao on Sunday It was all going too fast and too well in Mali, wasn't it? France's devastatingly effective charge across the north of the country...And in the capital, Bamako, all the right noises finally...
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The News & Observer
| 4 months ago
Associated Press GAO, Mali French and Malian government forces on Monday have regained control of this strategic northern city, after Islamic fighters invaded through the city's harbor Sunday and fought a protracted battle for hours in the heart of...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 4 months ago
French and Malian troops on Monday said they are in control of the strategic city of Gao once again after fighting that was described as the most serious escalation of the conflict since French forces entered Mali in late January. The clashes took...
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The Guardian
| 4 months ago
French-led forces retake Gao after surprise attack by rebels Soldiers conduct house-by-house search in northern city for last remaining Islamist fighters after two days of heavy fighting , west Africa correspondent People inspect a heavily shelled...
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BusinessInsider
| 4 months ago
Pascal Guyot/AFP France bombed Islamist targets in northern Mali on Monday following a string of guerrilla attacks by the extremists a month after Paris launched an offensive to drive them from its former colony...An AFP reporter at the scene said...
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Russia Today
| 4 months ago
12 Malian soldiers stand guard on February 10, 2013 in the Malian northern city of Gao (AFP Photo / Pascal Guyot) (35.1Mb) embed video Blasts and street violence continue in Mali's largest northern city after Islamist insurgent guerrilla raids.
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BBC
| 4 months ago
Malian troops are carrying out house-to-house searches following running battles with Islamist militants in the northern town of Gao on Sunday. There are fears some fighters could be hiding among the population, the BBC's Thomas Fessy reports from...
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International Business Times
| 4 months ago
Malian soldiers take up positions during gun battles with Islamist insurgents in the northern city of Gao on Feb. 10, 2013 The Malian troops told the AFP that the blast appeared to have occurred in the north of Gao, possibly at the military...
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BBC
| 4 months ago
Mali troops battle rebels in northern city of Gao 11 February 2013 Last updated at 01:47 ET French and Malian troops have fought running battles with Islamist rebels in the centre of Gao, the main city in northern Mali. Rebels had been pushed out of...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 4 months ago
Islamist insurgents launched a surprise raid in the heart of the Malian town of Gao on Sunday, battling French and local troops in a blow to efforts to secure Mali's recaptured north. Local residents hid in their homes or crouched behind walls as the...
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Zee News
| 4 months ago
56 Zeenews Bureau Gao: Severe ongoing clashes were reported between Malian troops and suspected Islamists extremists here as per reports. The clashes between the two sides began near the central police station but have now spread to heavy gunfire on...
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The Independent
| 4 months ago
Government troops fought gun battles with Islamist insurgents in the streets of the northern town of Gao today, highlighting fragile security in zones recently recaptured by a French-led military offensive. Gunfire resounded through the sandy streets...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 4 months ago
GAO, Mali (AP) Black-robed Islamic extremists armed with AK-47 automatic rifles penetrated the most populous city in northern Mali on Sunday, engaging the Malian army in combat in a surprise attack two weeks after French and Malian troops ousted the...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 4 months ago
French soldiers secure the area where a suicide bomber attempted to attack in Gao. Mali's army has foiled a suicide bomb attack, a day after the first such strike targeting Franco-Malian forces. Captain Modibo Traore, an army spokesman, said two men...
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The Globe & Mail
| 4 months ago
Reuters Video Video Video France's President Francois Hollande (C) shakes hands as he arrives at the airport in Timbuktu during his one-day visit in Mali, February 2, 2013. President Hollande flew to Mali on Saturday to support French troops fighting...
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SF Gate
| 4 months ago
GAO, Mali (AP) Heavy gunfire erupted in the downtown area of the city of Gao. The shooting was heard by journalists and residents Sunday afternoon. The reason for the fighting was not immediately clear, but it comes hours after a suicide bomber...
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BBC
| 4 months ago
There are reports of heavy gunfire on the streets of Gao in northern Mali. A battle had erupted between Malian troops and Islamist militants near the central police station, a correspondent for the AFP news agency said...Gao was retaken just over two...
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SF Gate
| 4 months ago
GAO, Mali (AP) A suicide bomber wearing military fatigues blew himself up near a checkpoint at the entrance to northern Mali's largest city, wounding one soldier in the second attack to hit the same location since Friday, residents and officials said...
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Mail and Guardian
| 4 months ago
This is the second attempted suicide attack on the same location in two days, a Malian military source and a witness said on Sunday. "It was another suicide bomber ... the soldiers saw him coming and shot at him and he exploded," the military source,...
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International Herald Tribune
| 4 months ago
Senegal Just as Al Qaeda once sought refuge in the mountains of Tora Bora, the Islamist militants now on the run in Mali are hiding out in their own forbidding landscape, a rugged, rocky expanse in northeastern Mali that has become a symbol of the...
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The Globe & Mail
| 4 months ago
Reuters Video Video Video Video An AFP correspondent said the blast was audible from Gao, the main city in northern Mali which was only recaptured from the Islamists late last month. At about half past midnight Sunday, French military helicopters...
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The Globe & Mail
| 4 months ago
Reuters Video Video Video Video It went off at around 11:00 pm GMT, an AFP correspondent said. A French military source said it had happened some 10 kilometres away from the French military base at the city's airport, but could provide no further...
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BBC
| 4 months ago
France probes suspects 'linked to African jihadists' France increased its domestic terror threat level in January A French judge has opened criminal proceedings against four men suspected of links with Islamist militant networks in west Africa. The...
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The Globe & Mail
| 4 months ago
Video France's President Francois Hollande (C) shakes hands as he arrives at the airport in Timbuktu during his one-day visit in Mali, February 2, 2013. President Hollande flew to Mali on Saturday to support French troops fighting Islamist rebels in...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 4 months ago
GAO, Mali (AP) Two men with explosives were arrested trying to enter the city of Gao on Saturday, the Malian military said, a day after a suicide bomber blew himself up in an attack that has fueled fears of a militant insurgency in northern Mali. The...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 4 months ago
Vicki Huddleston says other European countries, including Germany, have also handed over ransom money amounting to nearly $90 million. Speaking to a French TV station, Ms Huddleston said French hostages seized in 2010 were only released because cash...
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Daily Nation
| 4 months ago
GAO, Mali An Islamist suicide bomber blew himself up in Mali on Friday, the country's first such attack, as the rebels' turn toward guerrilla tactics and clashes between rival soldiers showed that the war is far from won. An attacker rode a...
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United Press International
| 4 months ago
France paid a $17 million ransom for four of its citizens being held by Islamic militants without winning their freedom, a former U.S. ambassador to Mali said. In an interview Thursday with the French broadcaster iTele, Vicki Huddleston said the...
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The Globe & Mail
| 4 months ago
Video France's President Francois Hollande (C) shakes hands as he arrives at the airport in Timbuktu during his one-day visit in Mali, February 2, 2013. President Hollande flew to Mali on Saturday to support French troops fighting Islamist rebels in...
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BBC
| 4 months ago
A former US ambassador to Mali has told the BBC that France that paid ransom money to free hostages and the funds ended up bolstering Islamist groups it is now fighting. Vicki Huddleston said France paid $17m (£10.75m) to free hostages seized from a...
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The Independent
| 4 months ago
A former US ambassador to Mali, has claimed Nicolas Sarkozy's government paid $17m (£11m) to free French hostages seized from a uranium mine in its former colony, Niger, in 2010. Vicki Huddleston, who has now retired, said under Mr Sarkozy, France...
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Russia Today
| 4 months ago
French president Francois Hollande has been given a baby camel by government of Mali as token of gratitude for the French military helping rid the north of the country of Islamist rebels. Kidal February 4, 2013 (Reuters / Cheick Diouara) A former US...
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Arab News
| 4 months ago
France channelled millions of dollars in ransom payments to the Al-Qaeda-linked militants its troops are currently fighting in Mali, according to a former US ambassador in the region. In an interview aired yesterday, Vicki Huddleston said France had...
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The Guardian
| 4 months ago
Jerome Delay/AP Fierce fighting between rival army factions broke out in Mali 's capital Bamako on Friday, in an ominous sign of the military's weakness and amid further attacks from Islamist rebels. At least one person was killed and five injured...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 4 months ago
However the French government was double-crossed and these French hostages are still being held by Al-Qaeda militants, probably somewhere in northern Mali. Huddleston, who served as US ambassador to Mali between 2002 and 2005, also confirmed that a...
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SF Gate
| 4 months ago
A former U.S. ambassador to Mali has alleged that France paid a $17 million ransom to free hostages seized from a French mining site cash she said ultimately funded the al-Qaida -linked Islamist militants its troops are now fighting. French officials,...
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Africa Headlines
| 4 months ago
France paid a ransom of millions of euros to Al Qaida's north African arm for four hostages held in Niger but they were not freed, a former American ambassador to Mali has told French TV. European governments handed over 66 million euros for hostages...
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Mail Online UK
| 4 months ago
A local truck drives by a convoy of French army vehicles...Meanwhile heavy gunfire erupted in the west of Mali's capital Bamako today as government forces exchanged fire with mutinous paratroopers, military sources and witnesses said. Government...
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The Courier-Mail
| 4 months ago
Malian soldiers in the northern city of Gao, a local military officer says. The suicide bomber "approached us on a motorbike, he was a Tamashek (Tuareg), and as he came closer he set off his belt," said Mali First Sergeant Mamadou Keita. "He died...
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BBC
| 4 months ago
The attacker approached a group of soldiers on a motorbike before detonating an explosive belt, injuring one of them, a Malian officer told AFP. Gao is the most populous city in northern Mali, which was captured by Islamist militants last year.
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Associated Press
| 4 months ago
The former American ambassador to Mali says France paid $17 million in ransoms to free French hostages and that the money ended up in the hands of the same al-Qaida militants the country is fighting now. In an interview that aired Friday on iTele,...
