[IRIN] Housseyni Diallo thought the smoke and flames he saw were from an early morning bonfire lit in the final revelry of a New Year's Eve celebration. He was wrong: armed men were burning down parts of his village, in central Mali's Mopti region.

[CAJ News] Bamako -THE United Nations (UN) is probing the prevalence of conflict-related sexual violence in Mali.

[Guardian] I want to appeal to President Buhari led Federal Government to save Nigerians from slave auctions in Mali. There is urgent need to rescue more than 20,000 Nigerian girl's traffic to Mali. There is urgent need to protect Nigerian citizens f...

[MSF] Recently, an upsurge in threats from armed groups operating between the borders of Mali and Niger has caused a new wave of displacement. More than 8,000 people have been forced to settle in improvised camps around the village of Kongokiré, Til...

[Deutsche Welle] During a visit to Mali, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has said the worst thing Germany could do would be to pull troops out of the country.