20120610
AFP
Tuareg rebels who have declared a separate state in northern Mali met Saturday for the first time with the West African mediator in the Malian crisis, Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore.

20120609
AFP
Mali's Tuareg rebels clashed overnight with their former Islamist allies, witnesses said Friday, after the two groups fell out over forming a breakaway state in the northern desert region they control.

20120608
AFP
Mali's Tuareg rebels clashed overnight with their former Islamist allies, witnesses said Friday, after the two groups fell out over forming a breakaway state in the northern desert region they control.

20120606
AFP
Disagreements between Tuareg and Islamists rebels over the creation of a breakaway state in northern Mali persist as they fail to agree on the implementation of Islamic law, the Tuaregs said Tuesday.

20120606
AFP
Disagreements between Tuareg and Islamists rebels over the creation of a breakaway state in northern Mali persist as they fail to agree on the implementation of Islamic law, the Tuaregs said Tuesday.

20120606
AFP
Three suspects have been charged with disturbing public order and are being detained in connection with an attack on transition leader Dioncounda Traore in May, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

20120602
AFP
Tuareg rebels said Friday they had rejected a deal with Islamist rebels to form a breakaway state in northern Mali because of their insistence on implementing sharia law.

20120602
AP
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The leader of a Tuareg separatist movement in northern Mali has denied reports that a deal the group signed with an Islamic rebel faction to work toward creation of an Islamic state in the region is off.

20120529
AFP
Some 50 people have been arrested in the investigation into the attack on Mali's interim president Dioncounda Traore by protesters angry over the transition deal, the government announced Monday.

20120529
AFP
An Al-Qaeda offshoot has seized a key arms depot in Mali, security sources said Sunday, deepening the crisis facing the country after rebels declared an independent Islamic state in the north.

20120527
AP
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The two rebel groups that seized control of the northern half of Mali announced Saturday that they have agreed to fuse their movements and work together to create an independent Islamic state on the territory they occupy, a signatory to the agreement said.

20120527
AFP
The prime minister of Mali's transition government arrived in Abidjan Saturday for talks with West African bloc head Alassane Ouattara, the president of Ivory Coast, on the Malian crisis.

20120526
AFP
Malian paramilitary police on Friday questioned three leaders of a pro-coup coalition which called a protest during which the country's transition president Dioncounda Traore was physically assaulted.

20120523
AFP
Mali's one-year transition back to democratic rule got off to a shaky start on Tuesday amid fears the process may be derailed after president Dioncounda Traore was attacked by angry protesters.

20120522
AP
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Demonstrators forced their way into the office of Mali's interim president on Monday and attacked the elderly leader, who was later brought to a local hospital unconscious, a witness and an associate of the president said.

20120522
AP
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Demonstrators forced their way into the office of Mali's interim president on Monday and attacked the elderly leader, who was later brought to a local hospital unconscious, a witness and one of the president's collaborators said.

20120522
AFP
The leader of putschists who ousted Mali's president in March will retain the title of former head of state and all privileges coming with it, interim authorities and the West African ECOWAS bloc said.

20120521
AFP
Leaders of a coup in Mali said they respect a decision by the West African bloc ECOWAS that interim president Dioncounda Traore must head the transition until general elections.

20120520
AFP
Leaders of a coup in Mali said they respect a decision by the West African bloc ECOWAS that interim president Dioncounda Traore must head the transition until general elections.