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'Two die' in Mali grenade assault

Two people have died in grenade attacks by Tuareg rebels in Mali's northern city of Gao. A servant was killed in the home of a local official and another man was seriously wounded in the house of a prominent member of Mali's parliament. One attacker died when a grenade exploded in his hand before he could throw it into the home of the head of a government development agency.

MALI: When the world’s deserts flood

In August, floods loosened the dry caked Sahelian earth in Gao, northern Mali, affecting more than 1,000 people, many of whom temporarily took refuge in area schools. While displaced families have since vacated schools in time for the beginning of the school year on 6 October, many families remain homeless, according to the Mali Red Cross. “Things have mostly returned to normal,” said Mali Red Cross Executive Secretary Sibiry Diarra, “People are staying with their families as their destroyed...

Mali: Red Cross helps flood victims in Gao

With support from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Mali Red Cross is carrying out an aid operation for families affected by the flooding resulting from torrential rains that fell on the city of Gao at the end of August. The flooding destroyed around 100 houses and left several dozen families without shelter. Those who lost their homes also lost all their food reserves and now rely mainly on the families that took them in. Because food prices are rising, the host families...

MALI: Efforts to quell illegal migration

Abdoulaye, a Malian, spent more than US$500 to try to reach Spain across the Sahara, but he was caught by the Spanish authorities in Melilla, a Spanish enclave on the northern coast of Morocco and sent home 21 days later. A few months on, he remains undeterred. “Of course I was discouraged by my experience, but I am going to try again,” he told IRIN. He is currently working doing odd jobs to try to earn enough for another package to Europe. There are no official estimates of how many migrants...

MALI: Thousands still live in slavery in north

People continue to be enslaved in northern Mali, according to Malian human rights organisation Temedt, despite a widespread belief that slavery no longer exists in the country. Read more in the Hear our Voices on Iddar Ag Ogazide.  “The government believes slavery ended with independence, when many of the people who had been living as slaves in the colonial period were freed,” said Temedt President Mohammed Ag Akeratane, “but I would estimate there are still several thousand people...

MALI: Food situation looks positive despite insecurity

Despite high global food prices, conflict in the north and the onset of the lean season which lasts from July to September, the food security situation in the north and elsewhere, looks positive this year in Mali. "[Food] prices are going up, but it's normal; stocks are good and the cereal is available. We think overall, the harvest will be good," said Alice Martin-Diahirou, director of the World Food Programme (WFP) in Mali. "There are pockets of concern for us around the towns...