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    UN council visits crisis-hit Sahel amid Franco-US rift

    21 Mar 2019

    The UN Security Council travels to Mali and Burkina Faso this week for an up-close look at the worrisome Sahel region, where an extremist insurgency is showing no signs of weakening and is driving mass displacement.

    Malian government resigns as anger mounts over massacre

    19 Apr 2019

    A statement from President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's office said he had accepted Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga's resignation and that of his government two weeks after mass protests erupted over the rising tide of violence.

    Attack on Mali military post kills 53 soldiers

    02 Nov 2019

    Fifty-three soldiers were killed on Friday in a “terrorist attack” on a Mali military post in the northeast of the country, the government said. The assault is one of the deadliest strikes against Mali’s military

    UAE leaders congratulate President of Mali on Independence Day

    21 Sep 2019

    President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has sent a message of congratulations to President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita of Mali on the occasion of his country's Independence Day, which is marked on 22nd September.

    Rocket attack on UN base in Mali hurts 20 people

    09 Jan 2020

    Six of the peacekeepers from the MINUSMA mission were seriously wounded by the attack on the base in the town of Tessalit, spokesman Olivier Salgado told the media. He said it was unclear who was responsible.

    35 civilians killed in double Burkina Faso attack

    25 Dec 2019

    Burkina Faso, bordering Mali and Niger, has seen regular militant attacks which have left hundreds dead since the start of 2015 when militant violence began to spread across the Sahel region.

    Mali army says it killed 50 militants, freed soldiers in counter-attack

    19 Oct 2019

    Unidentified assailants killed 38 soldiers during the Sept. 30 attacks, among the heaviest losses for Mali's army this year as it struggles to repel increasingly brazen raids by militant groups, some with links to Al Qaeda and Daesh.

    Thirteen French troops killed in Mali operation against militants

    26 Nov 2019

    Thirteen French soldiers fighting extremists in Mali were killed in an accident between two helicopters, the French presidency said on Tuesday, the single biggest loss

    In Mali, dreams and sadness for the Sahel express

    26 Nov 2019

    The sign above the station entrance declares that this is the Dakar-Niger Railway: the start of a trek from the arid Sahel to the tropical Atlantic, 1,300 kilometres (800 miles) away.

    24 Mali soldiers and 17 extremists die in clashes in east

    19 Nov 2019

    Twenty-four Malian soldiers and 17 extremists fighters were killed in clashes in the east of the country, the army said, as security in the west African nation deteriorates further.

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