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French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian visited the "last bastions" Islamist militias in northern Mali on a surprise visit Thursday. "The mission is not over," he told France 24 TV. Le Drian arrived in Gao, the main town in the north, after a morning in the Ametettai valley in the Ifogha mountains, the area near the Algerian border where armed
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Unicef said on Tuesday it urgently needs $45m to help children in conflict-stricken Mali, where the threat of violence and trafficking has spiralled, compounding a long-running food crisis. Unicef spokesperson Marixie Mercado told reporters the money was neeeded to address basic needs such as healthcare, nutrition, education and protection over the next three months. Hundreds of thousands of Malians fled
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RFI journalist Nick Champeaux and a journalist from French newspaper Libération have discovered extraordinary papers in which the leader of Aqim, Abdel Malek Droukdel outlines his strategy for Mali. The documents, dated 20 July 2012, four months after the jihadists took control of northern Mali, were found among others scattered on the floor of the offices of the ORTM national
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Tens of thousands of people who fled northern Mali are too scared to return despite the French-led military intervention to root out Islamist militia there, the Red Cross said on Friday. "There has not been a wave of returns, ... and I don't think there will be a wave of returnees any time soon," said Jean-Nicolas Marti, who heads the
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Mali's Prime Minister Diango Cissoko on Thursday ruled out the creation of a federal state as a solution to the conflict in the north of the country, in an interview with French daily Le Monde. "We are ready to talk about everything with everyone, not only the communities of the north. But it is out of the question to speak
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Militant Islamists fleeing northern Mali under pressure from French forces could undermine security in neighbouring countries from where some of the fighters are believed to hail. They could also attract the support of sympathetic militias in the region, and even target countries with large expatriate communities, analysts say. Members of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM - an extremist Islamist
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Mali's Minister for Territorial Administration, Decentralization and Regional Development of the Republic, Moussa Sinko Coulibaly has announced at a press conference in Bamako that the first round of the presidential election will be held on the first Sunday in July this year, which will fall on the 7th. Following the recapture late last month by French and Malian troops of
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A document left behind in the bombed remains of an Al-Qaeda training headquarters in the Malian city of Timbuktu gives a rare insight into the organisation’s thinking, a British newspaper reported Thursday. The Daily Telegraph said it had found the Arabic-language document outside a building bombed by French forces who drove the Islamists from the ancient city. The newspaper said
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Khartoum - Sudan's army said rebels had infiltrated into the troubled Darfur region from the Central African Republic but denied these were Islamist fighters fleeing a French advance in Mali, state news agency SUNA said on Wednesday. With air strikes and ground forces, France has pushed Islamist rebels out of cities and into desert and mountain hideouts in a four-week
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Gao - French troops on Wednesday defused a homemade bomb they said contained 600kg of explosives in the centre of northern Mali's largest city Gao, the target of several attacks by Islamist rebels in recent days. The bomb, which was made of four metal barrels filled with explosives and connecting wires, was in the courtyard of an abandoned house, with
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Gao - 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. The call to holy war from Aqap, the global network's Yemen-based branch - which US officials have labelled al-Qaeda's most dangerous franchise -
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Malian troops bolstered security at army checkpoints and villagers detained two youths allegedly strapped with explosives on Saturday after Islamists claimed responsibility for the country’s first suicide attack. Residents of a village near Gao, the largest city in the north, detained two youths they said were wearing explosive-rigged belts and travelling on the same road where the suicide bombing on
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The international community seems intent on "restoring democracy" to Mali. But it was the pre-coup status quo that led to collapse in the first place. Both the Malian people and the international press have been almost unanimous in lauding the French military campaign in Mali, which started in earnest on January 11. The ultimate French goal appears to be returning
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Gao - Villagers near the city of Gao in northern Mali on Saturday detained two youths alleged to have had explosives strapped to their bodies near the site of a suicide attack the previous day claimed by Islamist rebels, a witness said. "We arrested two young men early this morning. They had explosive belts and they were riding on two
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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 motorcycle up to an army checkpoint in Gao, the largest town in the north, and detonated an explosive belt, wounding
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Bamako - The first group of 70 EU military instructors, deployed to train Mali's deeply divided and underfunded army to take on Islamist rebels, arrived on Friday in the capital, a French officer said. "We are here to enable the Malian army to hold all the nation's territory and so that Mali can have a good army at its disposal,
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The Tuareg rebels who unleashed Mali’s descent into chaos are seeking to reassert themselves on the political scene now that French-led troops have routed the Islamists who hijacked their rebellion. The Azawad National Liberation Movement (MNLA) precipitated Mali’s unravelling on January 17, 2012, when its members — many armed with weapons recently brought back from Libya, where they fought for
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Gao - French-led forces have killed hundreds of militants in fighting to reclaim northern Mali and with the rebels' last bastion secured, France said on Tuesday it will begin withdrawing troops in March. Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the 26-day military intervention had killed "several hundred" militants as its air and ground forces chased them from their northern strongholds
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Gao - Schools reopened on Monday in Gao in northern Mali after French and Malian troops moved in and armed Islamists, who had held the town for seven months fled, an AFP photographer said. Girls and boys of all ages made their way to public and private schools in Gao, the largest town in northern Mali which was deserted under
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French planes carried out major air strikes in northern Mali overnight, the army reports, after President François Hollande's visit to the country Saturday. The bombardment took place near Kidal and in Tessalit region, both near the Algerian border. The air strikes targeted "logistical depots and training centres" run by armed Islamist groups in the border area, spokesperson Thierry Burkhard said
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French President François Hollande is to visit Timbuktu on Saturday after three weeks of an offensive that has recaptured most of the north of Mali from Islamist militias. Rights groups report a number of atrocities carried out by both sides in the war that has pitched Malian and French forces against Al Qaida-linked groups. Hollande will be welcomed at Sévaré
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MOPTI, Mali (AP) — Bawba Mint Baba Ahmed's sewing teacher singled her out in front of the class, telling her: "You look like a rebel." Others threatened to slit her throat, she says, drawing a finger across her neck. Now the 29-year-old has dropped out of school and spends her days hiding inside her mud-walled home with her mother and
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Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Friday he saw no role for the Western defence alliance in Mali, but hailed allies who moved to assist the French-led operation. "Nato as such is not engaged in the Mali operation and I don't see a role for Nato as such in Mali," Rasmussen said during a brief visit to Lithuania's capital
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The UN Security Council will soon begin discussing a possible United Nations peacekeeping force for Mali, an idea the world body had been uncomfortable with before France's recent military intervention, envoys said on Wednesday. Last month, the 15-nation council approved an African-led force for Mali that likely would have been funded with voluntary contributions from UN member states and trained
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French forces who took control of Kidal airport in northern Mali are temporarily unable to leave the facility because of a sandstorm, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Wednesday. Le Drian told a parliamentary committee that French troops had seized the airport overnight but had since become stuck there because of the adverse conditions.
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