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Daily Times
March 3, 2018
TIMBUKTU: Insecurity in Mali “continues to rage” and is progressing toward the center of the country, according to an interim UN report. Members of Plateforme, an armed pro-government coalition, and the CMA rebel alliance, who were signatories to a 2015 peace deal, are seeing “progressive decline ofÃâà...
The Arab Weekly
March 3, 2018
French President Emmanuel Macron, on a visit to Algiers in December, tried to break the deadlock between France and Algeria on how to handle the situation in Mali. This matters to the French president because Operation Barkhane, begun in August 2014 after January 2013's Operation Serval, preventedÃâà...
Citizen
March 3, 2018
The report's authors added that drug, human and arms trafficking remain rife in Mali, and despite the 2015 deal, “the humanitarian situation in the north and center of the country remains volatile, unstable and a marked deterioration persists.” “Across the country an estimated 4.1 million people are in need ofÃâà...
Gulf Times
March 2, 2018
An Al Qaeda affiliate based in Mali has released a video of French aid worker Sophie Petronin, who was kidnapped in late 2016. ... Attacks by insurgents are on the rise across the Sahel despite the presence in Mali of a 13,000-strong UN force and the growing involvement of the French and US militaries.
WTOP
March 2, 2018
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts monitoring the implementation of sanctions on Mali are warning that the conflict-wracked West African nation and its neighbors “face intensified terrorist threats,” especially in the border area between Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. The experts' interim report said theÃâà...
Daily Sabah
February 28, 2018
At least four United Nations peacekeepers were killed by a roadside bomb in central Mali on Wednesday, the U.N. said. ... French and African military operations, alongside the Malian army, scattered militants and restored government control over the area, but rebel activities and military operationsÃâà...
The Cipher Brief
February 20, 2018
Mali has suffered through four brutal civil wars fought between Tuareg rebels from the north and the central government in the south, which occurred in ... subsequently initiated Operation Barkhane in August 2014, which led to the deployment of 4,000 French troops into Mali to combat the insurgents.
The National
February 20, 2018
The drive behind setting up the G5 Sahel force dates to 2015, when Mali's government signed a peace agreement with coalitions of non-extremist armed groups. But insurgents remained active, and violence has spread from the north of the country to the centre and the south, before spilling over intoÃâà...
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