Mali

Mauritania, on Tuesday, denied participation in an environmental training program hosted by Israel, Anadolu News Agency reports. On Sunday, Israeli television channel, i24News, said Mauritania was among participants in...

When the newsstand of Giuseppe Trani was swept away by disastrous flooding that devastated the southern Italian town of Casamicciola at the end of November, the 70-year-old man lost...

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune emphasised yesterday that the "new" Algeria realises that the African dimension remains an important strategic choice. His comments were made in a message read on his...

In a blog entry, reflecting on the G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting in Bali, Indonesia, on 7-8 July, the High Representative of the European Union, Josep Borrell, seems to have...

Egypt has told the United Nations it will temporarily suspend the activities of its contingent in a Mali peacekeeping mission, citing increased attacks on its peacekeepers who escort convoys...

The distance between Ukraine and Mali is measured in thousands of kilometres, but the geopolitical distance is much closer. So close, in fact, that it appears as if the...

Late last January, French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, said that Mali's new authorities was "illegitimate and takes irresponsible measures" describing the military government in Bamako as "out of...

On 31 January, Mali gave French Ambassador, Joël Meyer, 72 hours' notice to leave the country after "hostile and outrageous" comments made by the Foreign Minister of former colonial...

The expansion of Al-Qaeda attacks in Mali threaten dozens of Moroccan truck drivers who transport goods to sub-Saharan Africa every day. The terror group has hit a 3,700-kilometre road...

Former diplomat Mohamed Larbi Zitout, an official in the Algerian opposition movement, Rachad, has said that the main reason for French President Emmanuel Macron's attack on Algeria is the...

Djenne is one of the oldest known towns in sub-Saharan Africa. Dating back to 250 BC, it flourished as an important link in the trans-Saharan gold trade and is often described as the 'twin city' of ancient Timbuktu.

A woman from Mali yesterday gave birth to nine babies in Morocco. "All nine babies are doing well," the Ministry of Health of Mali said in a statement. Twenty-five-year-old...

In a recent report, the UN Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), concluded that French warplanes had struck a crowd attending a wedding on 3 January in the remote village of...

Israel's National Security Council has warned its citizens that Iran may target them overseas and urged them to be more vigilant, citing threats by Iranian officials, the Times of Israel reported....

A two-year-old girl from Mali has died after being rescued from a boat of people seeking safety off the coast of the Canary Islands. The toddler was one of...

Venezuela sent gold to Mali in 2020 via Russian-owned planes to exchange for euros and US dollars that President Nicolas Maduro's government used to remain afloat despite US sanctions,...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has demanded France open an investigation into a Mali air strike that locals say targeted a civilian wedding reception. A report published by the rights...

Cairo has made its conflict against Ankara a foreign policy priority, rendering all regions a potential battleground, even the African Sahel region, which has generally been excluded from the...

French citizens yesterday denounced accusations that their country's army was involved in a case of fake social media accounts which were revealed by Facebook. French daily L'Opinion published an article referring...

An official report by Morocco's Economic, Social and Environmental Council has said that closing the land borders with the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla will not end smuggling,...

The Algerian Ministry of Defence yesterday denied allegations that the army had annexed parts of a Malian border town. Its statement came in response to media reports about the...

Mali has witnessed four military coups since its independence from France in 1960, averaging a coup every twenty years. The exception is that last month's coup came eight years...

Senegalese officials have removed 3,050 tonnes of ammonium nitrate from Dakar's port and exported the dangerous substance to Mali over concerns the stockpile could cause a blast similar to the 4...

The Al-Qaeda organisation in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) confirmed in an audio recording the murder of its leader, Abdelmalek Droukdel, who was killed by French forces at the beginning...

The German army plans to operate a fleet of Israeli-made Heron TP drones in Afghanistan and Mali from 2021, the German Press Agency (DPA) reported. The German government said the new...

Ask anyone in France from an ethnic minority background when they first experienced a robust police document check and they will not say during the current coronavirus lockdown. Most...

Five candidates for Algeria's presidency launched their campaigns, Sunday, in the run up to the polls' scheduled date, 12 December. Article 173 of the Algerian Electoral Law stipulates that "the...

Forget the hype. Israel's "security technology" has nothing to do with why some African countries are eager to normalise relations with Israel. What is it that Israel is able...

Algeria has barred all Syrians from entering the country through its southern border with Mali and Niger "to prevent the infiltration of the Syrian opposition factions and armed terrorists",...

Saudi Arabia has promised to donate 100 million Euros ($114 million) to the G5 Sahel for development projects. The Saudi Press Agency reported Friday that Saudi Arabia has pledged...

The Algerian army has discovered a hideout containing 11 surface-to-air missiles near the country's border with Mali, the defence ministry announced yesterday. "After a search operation in the country's...

Noureddine Ben Ysaad, the head of the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights, reported that 27 death sentences were issued in Algeria last year. However, the total number...