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Suspected jihadists kill 40 villagers in Mali, 12 troops in Burkina
More than 40 people were killed on Sunday when "terrorists" invaded the villages of Karou, Ouatagouna and Daoutegeft near Mali's border with Niger, a military...
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Former Mali dictator Moussa Traore laid to rest
Traore, who ruled Mali for 22 years before being deposed in a 1991 coup, died at age 83 in the capital Bamako on September 15.
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Mali forces fire tear gas to clear Bamako protesters
About 1,000 people spent the night on the streets of the capital Bamako, an AFP journalist said, before national guardsmen and gendarmes broke them up early in the morning.
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African summit seeks to ease Mali crisis
The unrest deeply worries Mali's neighbours and allies, who fear a country bloodied by a jihadist insurgency could slide into chaos.
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Gunmen kill 41 people in central Mali – mayor
The victims of Monday’s raids were mostly ethnic Dogons, said Issiaka Ganame, the mayor of Yoro, where 24 people were killed. Another 17 died in Gangafani 2.
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Gunmen kill more than 30 Tuaregs in ongoing Mali violence
The violence compounds an already dire security situation in the desert region used by jihadist groups to launch attacks in Mali and across West Africa.
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Mali to send reinforcements to Timbuktu
Another 350 police officers, paramilitary gendarmes and soldiers will be deployed, Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga told reporters in Bamako Saturday on his return from a visit to the area.
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Mali election heads to run-off between President Keita and rival Cisse
Keita won 41.4% of the vote in the mostly desert West African country, while rival Soumaila Cisse won 17.8%, the Ministry of Territorial Administration said on Thursday.
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Mali candidates allege poll fraud ahead of result
Keita’s allies say he is well ahead in the poll, which two dozen people contested, but have not ruled out the possibility of a run-off if he does not get the required 51 percent.
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Mali presidential race seen facing run-off; attacks could be issue
Cisse’s campaign manager, Tiebele Drame, made the announcement at the party’s headquarters in Bamako, the capital.
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Thousands of Malians rally against President Keita before election
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita won a landslide victory over Cisse in a 2013 election, the first after a 2012 coup d’etat and a temporary takeover of northern Mali.
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Suspected jihadists kill at least 16 Tuaregs in northern Mali
The attacks occurred on Tuesday in the village of Tindibawen, 160km east of the town of Menaka near the border with Niger, and in a nearby village, Menaka Mayor Nanout Kotia told Reuters.
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Machine gun attack on UN Mali base in Timbuktu kills seven
Mali’s army spokesman Selon Diaran Kone said the incident was now over, as the assailants had been repelled and four of them killed.
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German military helicopter crashes in Mali, two peacekeepers killed
The Tiger helicopter crashed around midday about 70 km north of Gao, burning out completely with no survivors.
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Al-Qaeda-linked group claims deadly attack at Mali resort
Mali’s Security Ministry said in a statement late on Monday that four of the dead were guests and one was a local soldier who died in the firefight.
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Minister: Mali forces kill five militants involved in hotel attack
Malian security forces have killed five militants involved in an attack at the weekend.
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Mali minister says resort attack an act of terror
Malian forces fatally shot two of the attackers but the other two escaped and were being pursued.
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Mali says militants kill seven soldiers in attack in north
The strike is the second on Malian security forces in a week, bringing the total death toll to at least 15.
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France kills more than 20 militants on Mali, Burkina border
The operation followed the death of a French soldier nearby earlier this month. It involved both air and ground strikes, the statement said.
