[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Newly appointed Harambee Stars head coach Engin Firat on Thursday oversaw his first training as the local based players reported camp.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Spain based midfielder Ismael Gonzalez has been recalled to the national football team Harambee Stars as the newly appointed head coach Engin Firat named a 34-man provisional squad ahead of the upcoming 2022 FIFA World Cup Qua...

[Nation] New Harambee Stars coach Engin Firat has named a 34-man provisional squad ahead of the 2022 Fifa World Cup qualifiers against Mali next month.

[VOA] New York / Washington -- Mali's interim government appears ready to cast aside long-standing counterterrorism partnerships with the United States and France, saying that both countries have failed to make Mali any safer.

[Cameroon Tribune] Prime Minister Mali Choguel Maïga made the statement on Sunday, September 26, 2021.

[HRW] Nyon -- Sport & Rights Alliance Calls for Protection, Remedy, Governance Reform

[RFI] Mali's Prime Minister Choguel Maiga has defended comments he made before the UN General Assembly on Saturday that France had abandoned his country in mid-flight with the "unilateral" decision to reduce the number of French troops in the country...

[The Conversation Africa] The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated counter-measures continue to shed light on the social and economic challenges facing African countries. Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa countries is expected to decline, putting...

[VOA] Theoneste Bagosora, a former Rwandan army colonel regarded as the architect of the 1994 genocide in which more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsi and Hutus who tried to protect them were killed, died in a hospital in Mali on Saturday.

[Daily Trust] Nigeria's national women's basketball team, D'Tigress, have defeated Mali in the final of the 2021 Women Afrobasket to retain their title.

[The Conversation Africa] The challenge of conserving wildlife while meeting the many needs of humans is a complex one. Some policymakers don't see how economies can grow while still making space for wildlife. Others understand that conservation must...

[UN News] The interim Prime Minister of Mali, Choguel Kokalla Maïga, said on Saturday that "rarely, has a country or region been as severely affected by the piling up of crises than Mali and the states of the Sahel."

[RFI] Mali's transitional government has approved the setting up of a War College designed to strengthen national security and train its future army officers. It comes just days after France expressed concern over plans by Malian authorities to hire ...

[This Day] Nigeria's senior women's basketball team, the D'Tigress continued their domination of the game in the continent last night as they claimed their third consecutive AfroBasket Championship title in Yaounde, Cameroon.

[VOA] A potential deal to bring as many as 1,000 Russian mercenaries to Mali is likely to further destabilize the country, according to senior U.S. officials who are urging the interim government to instead focus on elections.

[allAfrica] At the end of a two-day visit to the Sahel, France's defence minister warned Mali against hiring paramilitaries from Russian private-security firm Wagner, RFI reports.

[allAfrica] Washington, DC -- Reports that Mali's military junta has negotiated a prospective deal to bring in 1,000 Russian mercenaries from the notorious Wagner Group are anything but surprising.

[VOA] An estimated 3,000 Malians marched Wednesday through the streets of Bamako on the country's day of independence from France.

[HRW] Release Advisor to Politicians Unless Charges Brought

[Nation] Ten-men Mali defeated pre-match favourites Egypt 4-3 on post match-penalties to book a final spot against Senegal on Saturday in the ongoing Africa Deaflympics Ball Games Qualifiers at the Moi International Sports Centre Kasarani Wednesday.

[State Department] On behalf of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of Mali on the 61st anniversary of your independence.

[RFI] France's defence minister has warned Bamako that hiring paramilitaries from Russian private-security firm Wagner would isolate the country internationally, at the end of a two-day visit to the Sahel.

[MAP] Agadir -- The bodies of the two truckers, killed last Saturday in an attack perpetrated by unidentified armed individuals against a Moroccan commercial convoy in the commune of Didieni in Mali, arrived Friday morning at Agadir-Al Massira Airpor...

[DW] The Russian mercenary group "Wagner" is notorious; among other things, it has been accused of war crimes in Syria. Now it's allegedly set be deployed in Mali. Germany and France are threatening to withdraw their troops.

[GhanaToday] Ghana's President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has urged leaders of ECOWAS to make informed decisions on Guinea's political crisis as it will have long-term consequences for the stability and the defence of the democratic values of the ...

[MAP] Bamako -- The mortal remains of the two Moroccan truck drivers killed Saturday in a cowardly and barbaric attack by unidentified gunmen in the commune of Didiéni, Mali, will be repatriated on Thursday, said the Moroccan embassy in Bamako.

[ISS] The problem isn't new, but it is growing at an alarming rate and claiming new types of victims.

[CAF] Mali and DR Congo picked points away from home against Uganda and Benin respectively while Niger came from a goal down to hit Djibouti 4-2 in match day two of the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers on Monday.

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[Nation] Angry police officers on Friday stormed a prison facility in Bamako, Mali and freed a top commander.