Mali

McCartney writes to Benigno Aquino III asking for Mali the elephant to be transferred to Thailand.

Geologist kidnapped in 2011 with Serge Lazarevic by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb was shot dead.

Seven French nationals still being held by Islamist rebel groups in Mali.

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb abducted Verdon and Serge Lazarevic in November 2011

Coup leaders apologizing for the consequences of their actions is not something that happens very often. In Bamako, the capital of Mali however, a rare example of it took place on 26 June 2013 when Captain Amadou Aya Sanogo did just that in front of an audience which included Interim President Dioncounda Traoré, recently reconciled factions of the Mali Army, religious and tribal leaders and the media.

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Every year, usually in late autumn, The Economist publishes its "The World in____" for the following year. The issue for 2012 has an article by Oliver August on the effects of the North African uprisings of 2011 spreading south and in particular, foresees trouble brewing for the Sahel states because of the fall of Muammar Gaddafi:

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On 26 January 2013, French forces liberated the city of Gao in Mali after it had endured a 10-month-long occupation by Islamic extremists calling themselves the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) and its close ally, Ansar Dine. MUJAO was established as recently as mid-2011 as a Black African offshoot of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) because its fighters thought the parent organisation "too Algeria" focused. In Mali, where the population for the most part pract...

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Police looking for North African man after French soldier was stabbed as strong link suspected between Woolwich and Paris incidents.

President Francois Hollande says France will keep on fighting terrorists in Mali after bomb at Areva uranium mine.

Step-by-step guide to install Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean based SlimBean Build 5.5 ROM on Galaxy S3 GT-I9300

Five girls abused by staff at Awaaz Foundation in Kanota, Rajasthan over the last year.

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 expected to feature power-packed hardware including Exynos Octa CPU and Octa-Core Mali 450 GPU.

N'Djamena says gang including opposition MP Saleh Makki arrested for plotting to destabilise Chad.

French president Francois Hollande says attack targets all countries fighting terrorism.

Strong demand for chips from manufacturers of smartphones and tablets help the company's results.

Spanish ministry says al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb suspects have similar profile to Boston bombers.

Essam el-Erian says Boston attack linked with French interventions against al-Qaida

Timbuktu residents asked to look after camel presented to French president dine out on it instead.

Hungry villagers can't resist animal gifted to French president for defeating Islamists

Highly-anticipated Galaxy Note 8.0 device goes on sale at Samsung Experience store in Westfields Stratford City shopping centre in east London.

Elections in Mali are expected in July but Islamist militants are ready to return

The pope called for peace in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia in his first Easter Sunday Urbis et Orbis address to thousands of pilgrims in Rome.

Paris police evacuate area and launch combing operation before declaring area safe.

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As French troops and their allies start their tenth week fighting against Muslim militants and terrorists in Northern Mali, opinion in one of the world's poorer countries remains firmly in favour of the intervention by France, the old colonial power, in the country's struggle against the extremists which so nearly brought down the country's government. If the fundamentalists had reached Bamako, the capital, it is more than likely that the victorious Islamists would have imposed the str...