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Rokia Traoré to be extradited to Belgium over child custody case

After their split in 2018, Malian Rokia Traoré has withheld her nine-year-old daughter from her Belgian partner.

22/11/2024

Mali

Australian gold miner to pay Mali €152 million to free detained staff

Resolute Mining's CEO and two other employees were arrested in the Malian capital in early November after meeting with tax and mining authorities.

19/11/2024

Mali

Extremists attack military training camp in Mali, army says

The army said the situation was under control and asked people to avoid the area after reporters heard two explosions and saw smoke rise.

17/09/2024

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Thousands in Mali replaster the Mosque of Djenne

The annual re-plastering of Mali's Great Mosque of Djenne, the world's largest mud-brick building and on UNESCO's Danger list since 2016, helps maintain its integrity.

13/05/2024

Culture news

Aya Nakamura’s rumoured Olympics show prompts far-right outrage

Choosing Aya Nakamura to perform Edith Piaf songs for the 2024 Olympics amounts to “humiliating the French”, according to the far right National Rally leader, Marine Le Pen.

21/03/2024

World News

Italian family back in Rome following two years of captivity in Mali

Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said the family members were all in good condition.

27/02/2024

Culture news

France not boycotting African artists, assures Culture Minister

Explainer: French Cultural Minister Rima Abdul-Malak has clarified that “France has always been an open and welcoming nation for artists”, in the wake of a divisive letter sent out this week ordering cultural institutions to suspend all cooperation with Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso.

15/09/2023

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WATCH: Mali pays tribute to football legend Salif Keita

Hundreds gathered in Mali's capital Bamako to pay tribute to football legend Salif Keita who died at age 76.

07/09/2023

World News

Plane carrying 262 evacuees from Niger lands in Paris

Foreign nationals lined up outside an airport in Niger's capital on Wednesday morning to wait for a French military evacuation flight, while a regional bloc continued talks about its response to the military coup that took place last week.

02/08/2023

Russia

Executions, torture and looting: Wagner accused of abuses in Africa

Authorities in Mali are under pressure to end these violations and hold those responsible to account.

25/07/2023

Mali

UN votes to end its peacekeeping mission in Mali after junta demands

The UN Security Council voted unanimously Friday to immediately end its peacekeeping mission in Mali as demanded by the country’s military junta, which has brought in mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group to help fight an Islamic insurgency.

01/07/2023

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WATCH: Mali's record-breaking nonuplets celebrate second birthday

While they are not the first set of nonuplets to be born, they are the first to have survived after birth. They made history in 2021 for the most living births at once.

08/05/2023

Germany

Germany confirms it will withdraw troops from UN Mali mission

Berlin says political and security conditions in Mali, which is run by a military junta, can no longer justify the deployment of 1,000 German peacekeepers

03/05/2023

Russia

Who are Russia’s allies a year after Putin's invasion of Ukraine?

Since Russia’s leader ordered his troops into Ukraine, Moscow has been working hard to seek new strategic partners or to deepen existing relations.

01/03/2023

Mali

France completes withdrawal from Mali as last army unit pulls out

The last French troops have left Mali after an almost 10-year presence. It has had some 5,000 soldiers in the region since 2013 to fight against Islamist insurgents.

16/08/2022

Mali

France says it has captured a senior Islamic State figure in Mali

The French defence ministry has described it as "a new success" for Barkhane forces in the Sahel region.

15/06/2022

France

French army accuses Russian mercenaries of staging burials in Mali

Satellite images purport to show soldiers covering bodies with sand near the Gossi military base.

22/04/2022

Mali

'Senior' al-Qaeda operative in Mali killed, French army says

The military operation "eliminated" Yahia Djouadi, who has been described as the group's "finance and logistics coordinator".

07/03/2022

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Malians celebrate French retreat by burning EU flag

In Bamako, Malians celebrate France's departure by burning a European flag, with some demonstrators carrying placards with messages such as "Thanks Wagner" and "France is a terrorist nation"

20/02/2022

Europe News

Macron denies Mali mission was a failure as French forces pull out

The French president said that without French intervention in 2013 Mali would have collapsed as a state.

16/02/2022