20120909 Press TV Mali says it does not seek deployment of African forces into the country, but wants logistical support from the West African bloc to get back its territories from Tuareg fighters in the north.
20120909 AP BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Days have passed since Mali's interim government made a formal request to neighboring nations for military help to try to take back the country's north, which fell to Islamist rebels after a coup five months ago.
20120905 AP BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — In some versions of a story published on Aug. 31 about the whipping of a man in northern Mali, The Associated Press erroneously reported that 30,000 people have fled the conflict in northern Mali.
20120903 AFP Extremists occupying northern Mali said Sunday they have executed an Algerian diplomat kidnapped five months ago, after an ultimatum given to his government to fulfill their demands expired.
20120822 AFP Mali's new foreign minister said Tuesday that winning back the Islamist-occupied north was the top priority of a unity government which was formed on orders from West African mediators.
20120822 AFP Three Westerners abducted nearly nine months ago by Al-Qaeda in Mali have urged their governments to help free them, Al-Jazeera television reported on Tuesday, airing footage of the hostages.
20120821 AP BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali's interim leaders announced a new government late Monday, months after a military coup unleashed political chaos that allowed an Islamist takeover of the north and forced nearly half a million people to flee their homes.
20120814 AFP Mali's defence minister said Monday that very little had been done to set up a possible military intervention by a West African force in the country's Islamist-occupied north.
20120814 AFP Mali's interim president Dioncounda Traore has "renewed his confidence" in controversial transition prime minister Cheick Modibo Diarra, Traore's office announced.
20120813 Press TV Nearly 60,000 Muslims have gathered for a massive peace rally in Mali, a country that has been hit hard by violence since earlier this year when a coup toppled President Amadou Toumani Touré.
20120813 AFP Mali's interim president Dioncounda Traore has "renewed his confidence" in controversial transition prime minister Cheick Modibo Diarra, Traore's office announced.
20120812 Press TV The UN Security Council (UNSC) has called on Mali junta to stop interfering in politics, urging the military forces to “return to their barracks.”
20120811 AFP A member of the elite Red Beret paratrooper unit which served ousted Malian leader Amadou Toumani Toure has been shot dead in his barracks, military sources told AFP on Friday.
20120807 AFP Morocco supports a political solution to the crisis in Mali but the regional community will have to consider "other options" if diplomacy fails, the foreign minister said in a newspaper interview.
20120806 AFP Hundreds of children have been forced into armed groups in northern Mali, some serving as soldiers and others used as sex slaves, rights campaigners told reporters Sunday.
20120804 AFP The international community must help resolve the "forgotten crisis" in Mali or risk seeing the situation spiral out of control into neighbouring countries, the UN refugee agency chief said Friday.
20120801 AFP West African leaders Tuesday extended a deadline for Mali to form a unity government and wrest back its north from rebel hands as Amnesty warned it could slide into human rights chaos.
20120801 AFP Mali's interim government Tuesday denounced the execution by stoning of an unmarried couple by Extremists in the north of the country, describing it as a "dark-age practice".
20120731 AFP Mali's interim president put the final touches on a unity government Monday, the eve of a deadline set by foreign partners, taking the lead in negotiations after sidelining his unpopular premier.
20120730 AFP Mali's interim president Dioncounda Traore sidelined his controversial prime minister Cheick Modibo Diarra on Sunday by announcing the creation of new bodies tasked with ending the crisis.
