Dozens of mostly Muslim countries from across the Middle East, Africa and Asia have joined a new military alliance to combat terrorism, Saudi Arabia has announced.
Gunmen have killed three people and taken 170 hostages in an attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel in the centre of Mali’s capital, Bamako.
Hundreds of northern Malians have been detained by the Malian army since the French military intervention to oust Islamist groups began in January, with many prisoners complaining of suffering torture and abuse and their ill-treatment allegedly proving fatal on two occasions.
Since the bloody conflict in Mali began one year ago, the crisis has evolved in fits and starts, all the while immersed in…
With major operations in the North purportedly coming to an end, the French are keen to begin pulling troops from Mali by the beginning of March. But the remaining insecurity – as seen in the suicide bombings in Gao – calls into question the ability of the former colonial power to leave