Timbuktu
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...
UN peacekeeping and French military forces in northern Mali have faced near-constant attack over the past year by determined and well-armed jihadist groups.
Mali’s army spokesman Selon Diaran Kone said the incident was now over, as the assailants had been repelled and four of them killed.
A former Islamist rebel has been sentenced to nine years in prison for wrecking holy shrines in 2012.
The richly coloured film dramatises the 2012 takeover of the Malian city of Timbuktu.
EWN's Africa Correspondent, Jean-Jacques Cornish, reports on the day's top African news
Mali troops search for Islamist rebels responsible for Timbuktu clash.
Francois Hollande has pledged France will finish the job of restoring government control in Mali.
Donors pledge funds as Mali troops recapture abandoned arms and explosives of Islamist fighters.
French-backed Malian troops searched through Timbuktu for Islamist rebel fighters.