Talks on finding a political solution to Mali’s deepening crisis ended Sunday with calls to hold new elections and revise the country’s constitution, an AFP journalist said. But the gathering notably did not urge dialogue with jihadists, who have been waging a bloody insurgency in the troubled West African country for seven years. President Ibrahim […]

Hundreds of people gathered in Paris on Monday to honour 13 soldiers killed while battling jihadist insurgents in Mali, ahead of a national ceremony to mourn a disaster that has prompted soul-searching over the costs of the six-year campaign in West Africa. Sporadic applause punctuated sombre silence as a motorcade bearing the coffins crossed the […]

A mid-air collision between two helicopters has killed 13 French soldiers fighting against Islamic extremists in Mali, French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday. Macron expressed “deep sadness” at the news of the Monday evening crash, which took place during a combat operation. ALSO READ: Eight workers using one BVN to collect salaries in Bauchi, says Committee […]

By Victoria Ojeme, Abuja The Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has described the humanitarian situation in Mali resulting from the ongoing war as complex and worrying. Since 2012, Mali has faced a volatile crisis as political armed groups, including ethnic-based movements, jihadist groups, and transnational criminal networks, fight for hegemony […]

The death toll from a “terrorist attack” on a military post in northeast Mali Friday has risen to 53, Communication Minister, Yaya Sangare, said on Saturday. Thirty-five soldiers were killed on Friday in the attack on the spot in Indelimane, Mali about 70 kilometres west of Menaka near the border with Niger, according to the […]

German Defence Minister, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, on Tuesday, visited German soldiers serving with the UN in Mali to learn about their mission in the West African country. The soldiers are based in Camp Castor in the north-eastern city of Gao as part of the UN’s MINUSMA peacekeeping mission, which is considered the most dangerous operation currently […]

The conflict in Mali which was reported a few days ago to have resulted in the killings of at least 25 soldiers and 60 more missing according to AFP news has caused 920 schools listed closed ― robbing displaced children the opportunity of schooling. More than two-thirds of the 920 schools are in the three […]

At least 25 soldiers are dead and 60 more are missing in Mali after militants attacked two army outposts, the government said. Camps in the towns of Boulkessy and Mondoro near the border with Burkina Faso came under attack on Monday. The government says their troops killed 15 militants and have since recaptured the area, […]

Clement Onyeaso Nze, the Director-General of the Nigerian Hydrological Services Agency, NHSA, in this interview, says Nigeria is awaiting river flooding from Niger Basin.

UGHELLI – THE Sariki of Arewa community in Uvwie local government area of Delta State, Suleiman Jauro, has disclosed that Fulani herdsmen from Chad, Mali and Niger known as Boros are the brains behind kidnappings and other related crimes by herdsmen in parts of the state.

Deep in central Mali, what was supposed to be harvest season for villagers has become a season of starvation, death and destruction. Mali’s health ministry says so far hundreds of people have died from what it describes as a man-made famine, as farmers and herders fight over land. It is an ancestral conflict that takes […]

ABUJA- The Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is on a fact-finding mission in Mali to resolve a crisis that has displaced over 50,000 in Mopti region alone.

Unknown assailants killed at least 95 people in a central Mali village overnight, government officials said  on Monday.

Eleven-year-old Amy raises her left arm to show where a bullet grazed her side, and from deep within her, a boundless distress comes out in great sobs.

Traditional Dogon hunters massacred 33 Fulani herders in central Mali Tuesday in the latest clash between the warring communities, a lawmaker and a security source told AFP.