Mali Bound

A commercial flight landed in Timbuktu on Monday for the first time since jihadists captured the fabled Malian city in 2012, launching a new link for local airline Sky Mali. Carrying a delegation including two ministers, the plane landed after making the 700-kilometre...

A hundred jihadists were killed this month in a joint Franco-Malian offensive in the West African country's lawless centre, the Malian army said Tuesday. "One hundred terrorists were neutralised, about 20 captured and several motorbikes and war  equipment were seized"...

Representatives from herder and farmer communities that have become ensnarled in violence sparked by jihadist attacks in central Mali have signed three "peace agreements," a Swiss mediator said. The accords brings together the Fulani, also called Peul, who mainly...

Mali has officially disbanded its military junta, according to a government decree seen by AFP on Tuesday, more than five months after the army deposed president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. The junta briefly governed the country after the August 18 coup and formally...