The United Nations has appealed for more troops and helicopters for its peacekeeping mission in the West African country of Mali.

Mali’s Tuareg and Arab rebels say they are resuming peace negotiations with the West African country’s government.

Mali’s Tuareg and Arab rebels say they are resuming peace negotiations with the West African country’s government.

The Malian Army has arrested around 30 soldiers suspected of involvement in a recent protest in the garrison town of Kati, near the capital, Bamako, an army spokesman says.

The United Nations’ representative in Mali has called on Tuareg and Arab rebels to resume peace talks with the central government.

The United Nations’ representative in Mali has called on Tuareg and Arab rebels to resume peace talks with the central government.

The Malian justice minister says the government has freed 23 rebel prisoners under terms of a June ceasefire agreement in a bid to revive a troubled peace process.

A renewed fighting has erupted between Malian troops and members of the Tuareg rebel group in Kidal in the north.

Six people, including two civilians, have been killed and several others injured in a bomb explosion near an army camp in northern Mali.

Protesters threw stones at officials from Mali's newly elected government during a weekend visit to the main northern rebel stronghold

The death toll in catastrophic floods which left thousands homeless in the Malian capital Bamako rose to 34 on Friday, one of the leaders of the rescue operation said.

A Malian jihadist group says it is joining forces with Islamic extremists who are loyal to the alleged mastermind of an attack on an Algerian gas plant.

Mali's president-elect Ibrahim Boubacar Keita pledged on Wednesday to choose a cabinet based on competence rather than party affiliation or family ties, a sign he will break a tradition of weak consensus governments.

The first round of Mali's presidential elections was opened Sunday morning.

Pre-election clashes in the northern Malian flashpoint town of Kidal have left four people dead and many others wounded, a defense ministry statement says.

The Malian military has entered the northern city of Kidal for the first time since they were chased out 16 months ago by a Tuareg separatist group.

Mali's ex-transitional prime minister Cheick Modibo Diarra has submitted his candidacy for the July 28 presidential elections.

The signing of an agreement to end the crisis in Mali is likely delayed due to the absence of the rival parties to talks in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, according to officials close to the negotiations.

A man suspected of being an extremist ran for cover inside an abandoned house in the northern Malian city of Kidal, and detonated an explosive vest inside the structure, killing only himself.

Thousands of Malians have staged a peaceful protest in the northern city of Gao to condemn the interference of France in Mali’s affairs.