Mali, Africa

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...

GAO Monday, August 04, 2008 (IRIN) - Abdoulaye (not his real name), 27, tried to illegally migrate from Mali to Spain a few months ago, but he was...

GAO Monday, August 04, 2008 (IRIN) - Abdoulaye, a Malian, spent more than US$500 to try to reach Spain across the Sahara, but he was caught by the...

BAMAKO Friday, August 29, 2008 (IRIN) - Implementers of an international project to help endangered elephants in Mali want to prove that by doing so,...

BAMAKO Wednesday, September 10, 2008 (IRIN) - Malian civil society organisations say the 09 September release of 44 military prisoners by the rebel...

BAMAKO Monday, September 29, 2008 (IRIN) - Analysts say despite the government's efforts to secure the north through its clampdown of a militia...

BAMAKO Thursday, October 02, 2008 (IRIN) - At least 300 women are victims of sexual violence every year in Bamako, according to local police records,...

BAMAKO Tuesday, October 07, 2008 (IRIN) - The European Union (EU) has opened its first multi-million dollar immigration centre in West Africa, but...

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...

The European Union (EU) has opened its first multi-million dollar immigration centre in West Africa, but returnee migrants told IRIN the Bamako...