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Jazeera airs video of Westerners abducted in Mali
Aug 21, 2012 13:15 EDT
Three Westerners abducted nearly nine months ago by Al-Qaeda in Mali have urged their governments to help free them, Al-Jazeera television reported on Tuesday, airing footage of the hostages.
Mali forms national unity government
Aug 21, 2012 02:06 EDT
Mali's interim president Dioncounda Traore has formed a national unity government in an attempt to bring stability to a country split in two after Islamists seized northern regions following a coup.
Senior Al-Qaeda official arrested in Algeria: report
Aug 20, 2012 13:34 EDT
Three armed Islamists, including a senior member of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) thought to be close to its leader, have been arrested in southern Algeria, official media reported Monday.
Nigeria tightens security for Eid, US issues warning
Aug 17, 2012 13:02 EDT
Nigeria tightened security and the United States warned of the risk of attacks Friday ahead of this weekend's Eid festivities, which mark the end of the Muslim month of fasting.
Army chief vows Mali troops 'will oust Islamists'
Aug 15, 2012 08:34 EDT
Mali's army chief of staff Ibrahima Dembele has pledged that Malian rather than West African regional troops will eject Islamists from the country's occupied north.
North Mali residents ready to resist Islamist groups
Aug 14, 2012 02:48 EDT
Residents of Gao, one of the thre e main towns in northern Mali occupied by armed Islamists since late March, are fighting back against radicals who brutally apply strict sharia law.
'Very little' done on Mali military action
Aug 13, 2012 10:44 EDT
Mali's defence minister said Monday that very little had been done to set up a possible military intervention by a West African force in the country's Islamist-occupied north.
Mali's president backs controversial PM
Aug 13, 2012 01:21 EDT
Mali's interim president Dioncounda Traore has "renewed his confidence" in controversial transition prime minister Cheick Modibo Diarra, Traore's office announced.
Tens of thousands gather for peace rally in Mali
Aug 12, 2012 12:25 EDT
Up to 60,000 people gathered Sunday for a giant peace rally in Mali, a country split in two after Islamists wrested control of northern desert regions after a March coup in the capital Bamako.
Five French hostages kidnapped in Sahel seen alive in video
Aug 10, 2012 13:50 EDT
A Mauritanian online news agency has published a video showing five of six French hostages kidnapped by the North African Al-Qaeda branch from Mali and Niger in the past two years.
Clinton urges Nigerian reforms as Islamist attacks worsen
Aug 09, 2012 17:38 EDT
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged the president of Nigeria on Thursday to push ahead with reforms as it faces a deadly Islamist insurgency which has shaken Africa's largest oil producer.
Mali says military action against Islamists 'inevitable'
Aug 09, 2012 15:45 EDT
Mali's government said Thursday that military intervention in the Islamist-held north was 'inevitable' as the jihadists defied mediation efforts and cut off the hand of a thief.
Mali Islamist group wants to reunite nation as Islamic state
Aug 09, 2012 12:43 EDT
An armed Islamist group occupying northern Mali said Thursday it hopes to win over the country's south to its ideology and create an Islamic state.
Mali extremists wants to reunite nation as Islamic state
Aug 09, 2012 12:03 EDT
An armed Islamist group occupying northern Mali said Thursday it hopes to win over the country's south to its ideology and create an Islamic state.
Clinton meets Nigerian leader on worsening Islamist attacks
Aug 09, 2012 11:33 EDT
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Nigeria's president Thursday as the continent's largest oil producer faces an Islamist insurgency raising deep concern among Western powers.
Islamist extremists cut off thief's hand in northern Mali
Aug 09, 2012 09:42 EDT
Muslim jihadists occupying northern Mali on Thursday said they had cut off the hand of a thief in accordance with strict Islamic law which they have imposed on the population.
Clinton in Nigeria as Islamist attacks worsen
Aug 09, 2012 07:30 EDT
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets Nigeria's president Thursday on her African tour as the continent's largest oil producer faces an Islamist insurgency raising deep concern among Western powers.
Ban calls for UN sanctions against Mali Islamists
Aug 08, 2012 13:57 EDT
UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called on the Security Council to impose sanctions against Mali extremist groups accused of terrorism and desecrating Muslim religious shrines.
Gunmen open fire on Nigerian church service, kill 19
Aug 07, 2012 15:40 EDT
Gunmen stormed an evangelical church in central Nigeria, cut the electricity and opened fire once the building was plunged into darkness, killing 19 people including the pastor, officials said Tuesday.
Burkinabe mediator in Mali's Gao for talks with Islamists
Aug 07, 2012 14:19 EDT
Burkina Faso's foreign minister, the highest-ranking diplomat to travel to Mali's Islamist-held north, met Tuesday with Al-Qaeda-linked fighters who have sliced the west African nation in two.
