20120729 AFP An army officer and a religious leader have been arrested by armed men in Bamako as part of an investigation into an attempted counter coup, family members said on Saturday.
20120729 AFP Mali's interim president Dioncounda Traore returned to Bamako on Friday amid tight security after a two-month stay in Paris for medical treatment after he was attacked by a mob in his office.
20120728 AP BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali's interim president returned home Friday, two months after seeking medical treatment in France when he was badly beaten by protesters who back a coup leader hanging onto power.
20120724 AFP The European Union said Monday it was ready to back the deployment of an African stabilisation force under UN mandate in Mali, and threatened sanctions against those post a threat to democratic change.
20120721 AFP A toddler's cries ring out in a paediatric ward where about 20 children lie emaciated from malnutrition in this northern Mali town, whose occupation by Islamists has caused a humanitarian crisis.
20120721 AFP Refugees fleeing the confict in northern Mali are placing even greater strain on the Sahel region, already battling a severe food crisis after failed harvests last year that have left millions hungry.
20120720 AFP Three European aid workers released in Mali after being kidnapped by an Al-Qaeda-linked group, were freed in exchange for three Islamists, a negotiator said as they headed home.
20120718 AFP Mali's interim prime minister Cheick Modibo Diarra on Tuesday presented a roadmap for rescuing his country from a post-coup crisis to the region's lead mediator.
20120715 AFP African leaders on Saturday called for a speedier political transition in Mali where the interim government is struggling to tackle Islamist militants holding the vast desert north.
20120710 Xinhua Mali's External Affairs and African Integration Minister Madam Traore Rokiatou Guikine left Bamako on Monday to go to Paris to inform the transitional president Dioncounda Traore about the outcome of the last meeting of the ECOWAS Contact Group on Mali, a statement from the country's communication ministry said
20120708 AFP West African leaders meet in Burkina Faso on Saturday with civil leaders from Mali amid moves to create a government of national unity to tackle a crisis in the north where Islamists have enforced sharia law.
20120705 AFP Mali's national assembly called for army intervention in the north where Islamists have enforced strict sharia law, destroyed ancient shrines and trapped residents with landmines.
20120704 AFP France said Tuesday it was confident that the United Nations Security Council would soon pass a resolution authorising a west African force to fight rebels holding northern Mali.
20120703 AFP Mali will do everything it can to recover the vast northern territory seized by Tuareg separatists and now mainly controlled by extremists, the country's foreign minister told AFP Monday.
20120702 AFP Mali on Sunday appealed to the United Nations to take action after Mali extremists ravaged shrines in the fabled city of Timbuktu which the UN's cultural body has listed as an endangered site.
20120701 Press TV Members of the Ansar Dine extremist group have destroyed centuries-old mausoleums of Sufi Muslim saints in the UNESCO-listed city of Timbuktu in the West African nation of Mali.
20120630 AFP An Islamist militant group in lawless northern Mali, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), Friday threatened countries who would join a military intervention force.
20120626 AFP Four members of Qatar's Red Crescent Society are in northern Mali to evaluate the humanitarian needs of a region cut off from foreign aid groups since being seized by armed rebels, the organisation said Monday.
20120623 AFP Mali's embattled interim prime minister said Friday negotiations with the armed groups controlling the northern half of his country were his first choice to solve the crisis.
20120612 AFP There is a risk of "terrorist" groups setting up in the deserts of northern Mali, French President Francois Hollande warned Monday after talks with Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou in Paris.
