Several communities in Mali’s northern Menaka Region have turned to al Qaeda’s men in the face of extreme pressure and violence from the Islamic State’s local wing.

Belmokhtar empire based on crime

Mali’s Kidal still waits for resolution

US military presence in Africa growing in small ways

Timbuktu waits for peace dividend

Mali’s Kidal Still Waits for Resolution

Sahel military forces train together

An AP reporter’s quest to find bodies of victims killed by Malian military ends in the desert

Insight: Revival of Islamists in Mali tests French, UN nerve

Less than a week after both parties agreed to establish an independent state in northern Mali and implement sharia law, Tuareg rebels have publicly renounced the accord signed with the al Qaeda-affiliated Ansar Dine group.
