Mali Bound

By Didier Lauras - From the arid expanses of the Sahel into the Sinai Peninsula and now Mozambique, Africa is proving fertile ground for jihadist groups looking to bolster their notoriety by exploiting conflicts that have often festered for years.   The fighters who...

The remains of a Swiss missionary taken hostage and killed by Islamists in Mali have been identified and will be returned to her family, the Swiss foreign ministry said Wednesday. Beatrice Stockli, a missionary from Basel working in Timbuktu, was kidnapped in 2016 by...

A French air strike killed 19 civilians in central Mali in January, according to a UN report, seen Tuesday by AFP, that prompted a strong denial from France. On January 3, French warplanes struck near the remote village of Bounti in circumstances that sparked...

Six people were killed in northeastern Mali on Thursday in disputed circumstances, with French forces saying a strike targeted jihadists and local residents alleging those left dead were young hunters.   It was the second time in recent months that an air strike had...