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Gunmen Attack UN Base In Mali’s Timbuktu
Gunmen attacked a UN peacekeeping base in Mali’s northern city of Timbuktu on Monday, the peacekeeping mission said, adding that…
Day of reckoning for extremist Islamic judge
(Reuters) – Mali’s army has arrested a hardline Islamist judge who ordered floggings, amputations and the stoning of women for…
Mali: France’s Hollande arrives Timbuktu
President Francois Hollande arrived Saturday in the fabled desert city of Timbuktu in northern Mali, where a French-led military campaign…
Looting in Timbuktu as donors pledge $455m
TIMBUKTU, Mali (AFP) – Hundreds of people looted shops Tuesday in Mali’s fabled Timbuktu, newly freed from Islamists, as global…
Mali’s extremist muslims whip unmarried couples
Militant Islamists in the north of Mali gave three unmarried couples 100 lashes of the whip each on Thursday in…
Extremists in Mali destroy more historic monuments
Radical Islamists,controlling northern Mali on Saturday took a bulldozer to the independence monument in Timbuktu, where they have destroyed several…
UNESCO lists Mali’s Timbuktu as endangered world heritage
The United Nations cultural organisation UNESCO on Thursday listed the entire town of Timbuktu in Mali as endangered world heritage…
Mali junta fumbles as rebels, Al-Quaeda tighten grip
Mali’s junta brushed off calls to give up power on Tuesday as world powers sounded the alarm and Islamists tightened…