-
Al Murabitoon attacks nightclub in Mali capital
The assault, which has been claimed by the Al Qaeda-affiliated group, is the first of its kind in Bamako.
-
Militants kill five in attack on restaurant in Mali capital | Reuters
Militants kill five in attack on restaurant in Mali capital
/assets/images/featured-image-default.jpg)
-
Iyad Ag Ghaly reportedly in the Kidal region of Mali
Iyad Ag Ghaly, the reclusive leader of the Malian jihadist group Ansar Dine, is purported to be living freely in the Kidal region of Mali. A journalist for the German publication Der Spiegel met with the jihadist leader and his lieutenants.
-
Mali
French forces killed about a dozen jihadists “in the region of the Adrar des Ifoghas mountains” in northern Mali. The UN’s peacekeeping mission is struggling with persistent insecurity and tensions with the civilian populace.
-
Mali
UN forces reportedly killed three protestors and injured others in Gao after using gunfire to disperse a protest over a plan to disarm a pro-government militia; some reports described the protest as a siege. Suicide bombers and gunmen killed about a dozen people during an assault on Tuareg rebel positions near Tabankort town; the attackers are suspected to be members of pro-government militia. A senior Malian army officer survived an assassination attempt in Bamako on Jan. 26. Burkina Faso is deploying “an 850-strong Burkinabe battalion, called ‘Badeyan 3′” to assist in peacekeeping efforts in Mali.
-
Mali
Tuareg separatists protesting UN airstrikes claimed to have driven UN forces from an airfield in Kidal in northern Mali. A dutch helicopter fired on a car near the town of Gao, killing four rebels. UN forces repelled rebels who attacked them with a heavy machine gun near Tabankort.
-
Mali
Guinea will send 500 soldiers to aid the peacekeeping mission in Mali. The UN is overseeing negotiations between Tuareg MNLA separatists and the pro-government Arab Azawad Movement, which clashed in Tabankort over the weekend.
-
Mali
Jihadists attacked the town of Tenenkou in central Mali on Jan. 16, “killing at least three people” before withdrawing after a firefight with soldiers. Another attack on a UN peacekeeping base in northern Mali with car bombs and rockets killed one Chadian soldier and wounded another. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the attack. The European Union Foreign Affairs Council announced a plan to train and support Malian security forces.
-
Jihadists strike two towns in Mali, killing at least 4
Suspected jihadists have hit the central Malian town of Teninkou and the northern town of Kidal in the last 24 hours. Four people, including a Chadian peackeeper, were killed.
-
Mali
An IED attack wounded seven Senegalese peacekeepers in the city of Kidal in northern Mali on Jan. 9. Mali’s president named a new government after the prime minister was replaced three days ago.
-
Attack in northern Mali wounds 7 UN peacekeepers
An IED blast in the northern Malian town of Kidal has left seven Senegalese peacekeepers from the UN mission wounded. The attack follows a string of operations in central Mali by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
-
Mali
Islamist militants killed a civilian and set fire to the town hall during an assault on the village of Djoura in central Mali. The country’s foreign minister appealed for international intervention in Libya to stabilize the neighboring country and stem the spread of terrorism in the region.
-
Mali
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the assault on an army base in Nampala yesterday. Casualty figures from the attack have been updated to “at least eight dead.”
-
Mali
Jihadists attacked an army camp n the town of Nampala in central Mali, killing two soldiers and routing the rest of the military force; at least five people were killed. Six UN peacekeepers were wounded when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in northern Mali on Jan. 4. The mayor of Anderaboucane in Gao and his son were killed in an ambush on Jan. 3; two others were wounded.
-
Jihadists in Mali step up attacks, kill 7 soldiers
Despite a French-led counterterrorism operation in Mali and the Sahel, al Qaeda-linked violence continues to be a problem.
-
Mali
Mayor of Mali town killed as clashes and abuses spike in north
-
France
France wants action on Libya, stops short of African calls for intervention
-
Africa
African leaders demand action in Libya
-
Mali
The Malian government announced that it traded four prisoners to AQIM to obtain the release of French hostage Serge Lazarevic last week. France’s defense minister said that “nearly 200 terrorists have been neutralized” by French forces in the Sahel region over the past year.
-
France
Serge Lazarevic: Mali confirms militants freed for French hostage
-
Mali
The French military killed Ahmed el Tilemsi, the co-founder of MUJAO, during a special operations raid in Gao in northern Mali on Dec. 11. France’s current Operation Barkhane “is taking place across Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad and involves a total 3 000 French troops.”
-
French troops kill MUJAO founder during raid in Mali
In a midnight raid in the Gao region of Mali, the French military killed Ahmed el Tilemsi. He had a long history of al Qaeda ties, and was wanted by the United States.
-
Mali
Serge Lazarevic, the last French hostage in Africa, has been freed. Lazarevic was kidnapped along with geologist Philippe Verdon by AQIM on November 24, 2011. Verdon was murdered by the jihadist group in July 2013.
-
Mali
Three Chadian peacekeepers were injured, one seriously, when their vehicle struck an IED close to the UN camp in Aguelhok on Dec. 2. Ten peacekeepers have been killed and 36 injured in northern Mali this year.
-
Mali
The Financial Times reports “[o]ne UN peacekeeper has been killed or wounded in Mali every four days on average since the organisation’s ‘blue helmets’ operation was launched there 18 months ago.” Jihadists have begun to use IED tactics honed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
-
Mali
Suspected al Qaeda fighters kidnapped 10 children and killed two others who tried to escape near the towns of Aguelhoc and Kidal in northern Mali. The government has indicated that it is stepping up security after a suicide attack on Nov. 21.
-
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
In Mali’s desert French troops hunt al Qaeda well by well
-
Mali
A video of two hostages, Frenchman Serge Lazarevic and Dutchman Sjaak Rijke, was released by AQIM. Both men were kidnapped in Mali by the jihadist group in Nov. 2011. Lazarevic, the only French captive in the world, stated that his “life is in danger since France intervened in Iraq.”
-
WaPo: Al Qaeda affiliate ‘directing the fight’ in Mali
According to an article in the Washington Post earlier this week, AQIM is leading the jihadist coalition in Mali.
-
The younger Zawahiri protests France’s ‘war against Islam’
Mohammed al Zawahiri, the younger brother of al Qaeda’s emir, helped stage a protest in front of the French embassy in Cairo today. The protesters denounced France’s intervention in Mali, saying the country was “at war against Islam.”
