Tag: Mali
In Mali, Niger and Senegal, children face temperatures above 35°C for more than half the year. In eight countries, including Mali, Niger and Senegal, children now endure scorching temperatures above 35°C for over half the year, UNICEF reports. A new analysis by UNICEF reveals that 466 million children worldwide – one in five – now […]
The group known as GSIM killed at least 32 people, including three children, in attacks on January 27 in the villages of Ogota and Ouémbé. An extremist group linked to Al-Qaeda carried out massacres in two villages in central Mali in January, Human Rights Watch said in a report Wednesday, in an apparent war crime […]
Nine months after the last coup in Mali, the military arrested the Transitional President, Bah N’Daw, and his Prime Minister, Moctar Ouane, and some of their collaborators. The two leaders were brought Monday evening to the Kati military camp about fifteen kilometers from the capital Bamako. The United Nations and human rights defenders deeply concerned […]
A terrorist attack on a resort near Bamako frequented by foreigners killed two people on Sunday, including a Franco-Gabonese, but some 30 civilians escaped from the first anti-Western attack for more than a year in the capital Malian. One witness told the reporters that he saw a man arrive on a motorcycle who then started […]
Militants have attacked a United Nations base in northern Mali, leaving at least three UN peacekeepers dead and injuring 30 others. Olivier Salgado, spokesman for the UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA), said shelling hit the camp in the city of Kidal early Friday. “At about 7 a.m. (0700 GMT) the MINUSMA base in Kidal was […]
At least six people have lost their lives in a “terrorist attack” carried out by unknown militants in the Timbuktu region of northern Mali, the government says. The militants raided a convoy of civilian vehicles guarded by police forces in an area some 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Gao, the biggest city in northern Mali, […]
Among the dead were two Malian soldiers, while the body of a white man was seen lying sprawled outside the hotel in the town of Sevare, military sources said. Malian troops surrounded the hotel and shot dead one of the attackers who was wearing an explosive belt, the military source said. The Friday attack is […]
