Tag: Mali
Keita fires Mali past spirited Niger
PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa (AFP) – Mali denied determined Niger a first point at the Africa Cup of Nations when…
Jonathan boosts troop deployment to Mali
Nigeria has boosted its troop allotment for Mali to 1,200 soldiers from 900 planned earlier as part of an African…
Algeria ends desert siege with high death toll
Algerian forces stormed a desert gas complex, In Amenas, to free hundreds of hostages but 30, including several Westerners, were…
Jonathan set for Abidjan talks on Mali
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan will travel to Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire tomorrow for an Extraordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of…
50 killed in Algeria’s hostage crisis
Algerian troops Thursday launched strikes on a gas complex where Islamists are holding dozens of foreigners killing nearly 50 people,…
Nigerian paratroopers depart for Mali
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Nigerian Air force contingent made up 69 Paratroopers and Seven officers departed for the crisis-ridden West African…
Mali: Algeria hostage takers demand army pull out
Islamist extremists and three of 41 hostages they are holding at an Algerian gas field demanded Thursday, in interviews with…
Nigeria, others set to send troops to Mali
The first troops from a regional West African force were bound for Mali on Tuesday to shore up a five-day…
West African leaders to meet over Mali
An emergency summit of leaders from West African bloc ECOWAS has been set for Wednesday in Abidjan as countries in…
Africa’s Islamists kill 3 French soldiers
A French pilot was killed during a helicopter raid to prevent Islamist groups controlling northern Mali from advancing toward the…
Nigerian commander, Air Force tech staff in Mali
Nigeria has sent an air force technical team and the commander of a planned African-led force to Mali to assist…
US may send drones to Mali
The US military is looking at providing intelligence, aerial refueling tankers and other support to French forces in Mali, including…
West African troops deployed to Mali to fight Islamists
The chairman of west African bloc ECOWAS on Friday authorised the immediate deployment of troops to Mali, a statement said…
Malian rebels derail peace talks
One of the armed Islamist groups occupying northern Mali, Ansar Dine, said Thursday it was revoking a pledge to end…
Mali: Veering Toward A Nigerian Vietnam
BY OSUOLALE ALALADE With the unnerving undercurrents of developments in the vast wastelands of the Sahel and the Sahara in…