Here’s a close look at Mali: Geography: Mali is a vast, landlocked nation that straddles the Sahara Desert and whose borders touch Algeria to the north and Ivory Coast to the south, linking North ...

April 26 (Reuters) - President Amadou Toumani Toure, a former coup leader, is bidding for a second term in office in Sunday's presidential elections in Mali. Toure, credited with returning Mali to ...

BAMAKO, Mali — Despite intensive aerial bombardments by French warplanes, Islamist insurgents grabbed more territory in Mali on Monday, including a strategic military camp, bringing them much closer ...

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Once home to pre-colonial empires, Mali is a large, arid, landlocked country in western Africa. For centuries, its northern city of Timbuktu was a center for commerce, culture and learning. But after ...

As Mali fights Islamist militants and separatists, it has turned to Wagner mercenaries for security. But the group's leader is now presumed dead, UN peacekeepers are leaving and Mali faces a crisis.

7.1 million people in need of humanitarian aid More than 390,000 people internally displaced Approximately one million young children at risk of acute malnutrition Very high constraints on ...

The United Nations Security Council voted today to dissolve its beleaguered stabilization force in Mali, a serious blow to the future of human rights monitoring and protection of civilians in the ...

Mali has told the UN that its 12,000 peacemakers need to leave, after 10 years countering Islamist militants in the country. Last year, France withdrew its forces after military leaders seized control ...

Get a closer look at what happened inside the Radisson Blu Hotel. — -- The deadly hostage situation in Mali is over, hours after gunmen took 170 people, including U.S. citizens, captive at the ...