20120519
AFP
The parliament in Mali on Friday passed a law granting amnesty to the leaders of the March coup that plunged what was considered one of Africa's democratic success stories into chaos.

20120517
AFP
Mali's interim President Dioncounda Traore on Wednesday rejected a proposal by a former junta which staged a coup in March for a national convention to choose a caretaker head of state.

20120515
AP
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — West Africa's regional bloc threatened Monday to re-impose sanctions on Mali, saying that the junta's actions "appear clearly designed to disrupt the political transition" after a coup in the West African nation.

20120515
AFP
Mali coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Monday urged interim leaders to hold talks to choose a transition president after regional mediation failed to resolve a dragging political deadlock.

20120423
press TV
Thousands of Malians have staged rallies in the capital, Bamako, to protest against the ruling military and the “unnecessary” involvement of the army in politics, Press TV reports.

20120423
AFP
A Swiss woman abducted last week in rebel-held Timbuktu in northern Mali has been snatched from her captors by armed Islamists who want to free her, several security sources said Sunday.

20120422
Reuters
(Reuters) - About 200 soldiers claiming to be government loyalists have moved back into northern Mali saying they will fight to take it back from Tuareg-led separatist and Islamist rebels that routed the army across the region three weeks ago.

20120422
AFP
Mali's Red Cross said Saturday it had delivered five tonnes of supplies and medicine to rebel-held Timbuktu, in the north of the country, as witnesses reported deaths in the region.

20120418
AP
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Soldiers arrested the head of one of Mali's biggest political parties Tuesday, hours after a former prime minister was detained by military personnel, officials said, deepening questions about whether the military is in control of the nation despite a handover of power to a civilian leader.

20120418
AP
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — An aide says a former Malian prime minister has been re-arrested by military personnel just days after being released from custody.

20120418
AP
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — An Islamist group that is competing with Tuareg nationalists for control of northern Mali is stepping up efforts to provide law and order as it tries to gain recruits and the support of local residents.

20120417
AFP
Switzerland on Monday said a female national has been kidnapped in Mali's Timbuktu, the fabled city seized by Islamists following after a coup in the west African nation.

20120417
AFP
A leader of the Tuareg rebel group that has declared an independent state in northern Mali said Monday that a first official meeting between the rebels and Malian authorities had gone well.

20120416
AFP
West African mediator Blaise Compaore opened talks Saturday with the military junta that briefly seized power in Mali last month and Malian politicians trying to navigate a way out of the crisis.

20120416
AFP
Al-Qaeda's north African branch has sent a video of two French nationals abducted in Mali last November to the authorities in Burkina Faso, which was viewed by AFP on Saturday.

20120414
AFP
An interim president took over from Mali's coup leaders Thursday, threatening "total war" against Tuareg and Islamist rebels who seized half the country after the putsch three weeks ago.

20120409
AP
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali's president penned a resignation letter from his hiding place and sent an emissary to deliver it to the country's new leaders Sunday after he was forced underground in last month's coup, an official said.

20120409
AFP
Twenty-two people were killed and 31 others were injured in central Nigeria's Benue state when their church building caved in on them during Easter vigil, a government spokesman said Sunday.

20120409
AP
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Residents in Mali attempting to flee the northern city of Gao, occupied for the past week by rival rebel factions, said they saw Islamist fighters cut the throat of a gunman, who is assumed to belong to the secular rebel group.