West Africa’s mediator for Mali has begun talks with the Islamist and Tuareg rebel groups who seized the north of the country after a coup in March, officials said on Thursday. The mediator, Burkina...

Mali's interim President Dioncounda Traore on Wednesday rejected a proposal by a former junta which staged a coup in March for a national convention to choose a caretaker head of state. "It's a...

The Malian Islamist rebel group Ansar Dine said on Tuesday it would allow an aid convoy it had blocked outside the northern city of Timbuktu to deliver its food and medical supplies on Wednesday,...

Antonin Tisseron, Research Fellow at the Thomas More Institut considers the situation faced by Niger in the light of events in its neighbour Mali. Whilst  Antonin Tisseron   feels it may be...

A mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by Mr. Amine Mati, visited Nouakchott from April 29 to May 14, 2012 to conduct discussions related to the fourth review of Mauritania’s...

The head of the High National Election Commission, HNEC, Nuri El Abbar, confirmed on Libya's Al-Ahrar TV, that the election commission has decided to extend the deadline for the registration of...

FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva today warned of a major funding gap for activities planned by FAO in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa. Speaking at the Foro Nueva Economía international...

An Islamist group that abducted seven Algerian diplomats in Mali has warned Algiers that if it fails to meet its demands within 30 days, the hostages' lives will be in danger. "We are issuing an...

The crisis in Mali could become a threat to global security if the international community does not help the coup- and rebellion-hit country, the head of the UN refugee agency said Monday. “We are...

About a hundred fighters from across North Africa have joined the ranks of an Al-Qaeda offshoot which now dominates northern Mali, a Malian defence ministry official said on Sunday. “According to our...

An offshoot of Al-Qaeda now dominates northern Mali, regional security sources said Saturday, as militants brazenly began to impose their radical vision of Islam by desecrating a holy tomb in...

The Tuareg revolt in Northern Mali with the MNLA and Ansar Dine together with elements of AQIM and Mujwa is causing concern in Niger. The capital Niamey is only 450 km from Gao in Northern Mali and...

An Al-Qaeda splinter group wants a total of 45 million euros in ransoms for two European women aid workers and seven Algerian diplomats taken hostage, the group’s spokesman said Wednesday. The...