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Tuareg separatists from the Azawad Liberation Front and their jihadist allies attacked a convoy of Russian soldiers and Malian troops Thursday as they were en route to reinforce a military camp in the northern town of Anefis.
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Tuareg separatists from the Azawad Liberation Front and their jihadist allies attacked a convoy of Russian soldiers and Malian troops Thursday as they were en route to reinforce a military camp in the northern town of Anefis.
By Nana Karikari, Senior Global Affairs Correspondent Mali faces a fresh wave of violence after insurgents launched simultaneous attacks across five locations on Saturday. These assaults struck military positions in the north, center, and south of the landlocked Sahel nation. The Malian armed forces reported clashes in Anefis, Aguelhoc, Gao, Sevare, and Kenioroba. The government […]
Mali's military government has offered a €3 million reward for information that leads to the arrest or killing of Iyad Ag Ghali, head of the Sahel branch of al-Qaeda that launched a major offensive in April.
French, Malian forces kill 20 militants in operation-Mali army
French, Malian forces kill 20 militants in operation-Mali army
BAMAKO, June 16 (Reuters) – Allied French and Malian forces killed 20 militants in an operation in a part of northern Mali where Islamic State operates, a spokesman for the West African nation’s military said on Sunday.
The operation in the district of Akabar, a remote part of a game reserve near the border with Niger and not far from the Malian city of Menaka, was continuing, army spokesman…
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UPDATE 1-Mali president heads for Dogon village where dozens killed
UPDATE 1-Mali president heads for Dogon village where dozens killed
* Governor of troubled Mopti region sacked after massacre
* Mali’s ethnic violence now killing more than jihadists
* President Boubacar Keita cuts short Switzerland trip
* (Updates with president visiting attacked village)
By Tiemoko Diallo
BAMAKO, June 13 (Reuters) – President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita of Mali went on Thursday to visit the site of an ethnic massacre in central Mali in which gunmen…
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Mali fires regional governor after attack that killed dozens
Mali fires regional governor after attack that killed dozens
BAMAKO, June 13 (Reuters) – Mali’s council of ministers has fired the governor of its central Mopti region, after gunmen killed dozens of people in the latest of a spate of ethnic killings there, it said in a statement.
Attackers believed to belong to the Fulani ethnic group raided a rival ethnic Dogon village in Bankass on Sunday and Monday, killing 35 people, according to the government,…
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UPDATE 1-Mali lowers estimate of village raid death toll to 35
UPDATE 1-Mali lowers estimate of village raid death toll to 35
(Adds details, background)
BAMAKO, June 12 (Reuters) – Mali’s government has lowered to 35 from an initial 95 its estimate of the death toll from a recent attack on a Dogon village, the country’s latest incident of ethnic violence.
In a statement broadcast on state radio on Wednesday, the government said the initial death toll announced by the village chief had combined the numbers of dead and of…
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Malian government reduces village raid death toll to 35
Malian government reduces village raid death toll to 35
BAMAKO, June 12 (Reuters) – Mali’s government has revised down the death toll from a recent attack on a Dogon village to 35 from at least 95 initially estimated to have died in the latest incident of ethnic violence to shake the troubled nation.
In a statement broadcast on state radio on Wednesday, the government said the initial death toll announced by the village chief had combined the numbers…
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