Mali

French President Emmanuel Macron and Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou agreed on Thursday to postpone to early 2020 a meeting of Sahel country leaders due to take place in France later this month, the French presidency said.The decision to postpone...

French president, Macron on Wednesday demanded G-5 leaders dismiss growing anti-French sentiment across the region if they wanted France’s military to continue its operations against Islamist militants.France, the former colonial power, has the West’s largest military presence waging counter-insurgency...

An Islamic State group affiliate claimed responsibility Thursday for a helicopter collision that killed 13 French soldiers earlier this week in Mali, while France said it will reassess its military operation in West and Central Africa after its deadliest...

As Mali's gruelling jihadist conflict grinds on, many say military forces cannot be expected to do all the heavy lifting, and the country's fractured political class has to help.The country's problems are as much about poverty, ethnic divisions and...

France’s Defence Minister Florence Parly arrived in northern Mali on Wednesday, two days after a helicopter collision killed 13 French soldiers fighting jihadist militants linked to the Islamic State group.Monday’s crash on a moonless night led to the heaviest...

French investigators have found the “black boxes” from the debris of this week’s fatal French military helicopter crash and authorities will soon start examining them, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.The crash occurred late Monday during an operation against...

At least 13 French soldiers have died after two military helicopters collided in Mali.The accident happened on Monday during a combat operation against jihadist insurgents in the African country.Six soldiers and six officers were amongst the fatalities, officials confirmed."The...

The Malian army on Thursday discovered bodies of 13 missing soldiers after Monday's attack in Tabankort, near the Niger border, bringing the death toll from the operation attributed to jihadists to 43, sources close to Malian security security said.The...

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 30 soldiers in Mali earlier this week, Associated Press has reported.A statement late Wednesday asserts that another 30 soldiers were wounded in Monday’s ambush.The statement mentions no...

Twenty-four Malian soldiers were killed and 29 wounded when militants attacked a patrol in northern Mali on Monday, a spokesman for the army has said, updating an earlier death toll of seven.Mali is still reeling from an attack on...