• Northern Mali clans swear allegiance to JNIM

    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.

    Northern Mali clans swear allegiance to JNIM
  • Analysis: Conflict within a conflict in Mali’s northern Menaka region

    Intercommunal eye for an eye killings have been increasing in the past week with dozens of Tuaregs and Fulani being killed on both sides of the Mali-Niger border. The massacres come in the backdrop of ongoing counterterrorism operations against the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara.

    Analysis: Conflict within a conflict in Mali’s northern Menaka region
  • Tuareg

    Belmokhtar empire based on crime

    Tuareg
  • France

    Mali’s Kidal still waits for resolution

    France
  • Africa

    US military presence in Africa growing in small ways

    Africa
  • Al Qaeda

    Timbuktu waits for peace dividend

    Al Qaeda
  • France

    Mali’s Kidal Still Waits for Resolution

    France
  • Mali

    Sahel military forces train together

    Mali
  • Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

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

    Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
  • France

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

    France
  • Malian rebels quit accord signed with al Qaeda affiliate

    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.

    Malian rebels quit accord signed with al Qaeda affiliate