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More than a hundred people were killed in an attack on the village of Ogossagou in the heart of Mali. Women and children would also be among the victims.

Again, a German government plane has suffered a breakdown. This time foreign minister Heiko Maas had to deal with it. He was stranded in Mali after having been in West Africa for almost a week. 'I have…

In a French air strike, about 15 people were killed in Mali in West Africa. According to reports from the French Ministry of Defense, it was terrorists who were planning a...

Armed men have shot fourteen civilians in a remote village in Mali. According to a Tuareg militia, the attackers belong to a criminal gang that is active in the border area with Niger.

By an attack on the headquarters of the anti-terrorist brigade of the Sahel countries in the centrally located Malinese city of Sévaré, at least six soldiers were killed on Friday. According to a spokeswoman for the UN peacekeeping mission in the African country (Minusma), the attackers used explosives and automatic rifles.

Malian soldiers who were involved in the fight against Islamist militants have executed twelve civilians at a livestock market in the southern city of Boulkessy without any form of trial. The UN mission Minusma reported that this has been shown by research.

A quarter of the population of Mali suffers from a lack of food. According to the United Nations, 4.3 million people are dependent on aid, including 274,000 children who are threatened by acute malnutrition. At least € 85 million is needed to meet the needs. Of that amount is less than 6 percent.

In the Malinese city of Timbuktu, loud explosions have been heard at a UN base where a blue helmet was killed last week and several people were injured after an attack by Muslim extremists.

Certainly two blue helmets were killed in Mali by attacking a UN base at Adjelhoc, in the northeastern Kidal region. Ten others were injured. Nothing has yet been published about the nationality of the victims.

The four UN soldiers who were killed by an explosion in Mali on Wednesday are from Bangladesh. Their four seriously injured colleagues also come from that Asian country, the United Nations said.

At least 26 people were killed when a vehicle in Mali drove on a land mine. Many victims come from neighboring Burkina Faso, report the state television. Several people were injured.

Certainly three blue helmets and a Malian soldier were killed on Friday by fighting in the northeast of Mali. Blue helmets and Malian soldiers have also been seriously injured. That reported the United Nations mission in Mali according to local media.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that within a few weeks a West African peacekeeping force would be operational. This army must fight in the Sahel region with Islamic militants, smugglers and other criminals.

Five West African countries of the so-called G5-Sahel set up an army unit to fight terrorist operations operating from the Sahara. They decided that during a summit in the capital of Mali, Bamako.

The terrorist organization Nusrat-al-Islam wal Muslimeen claimed the responsibility for the attack in Mali on Monday. The organization is affiliated with al-Qaeda.

The five terrorists attacking a hotel and resort on the outskirts of Malamian capital Bamako on Sunday have been killed. This confirmed the authorities in Mali on Monday. The jihadists had accomplices of whom one was arrested, according to a Malinese minister.

In the African state of Mali, unknowns have performed an armed attack on a luxury holiday resort that is popular with Western tourists on Sunday. A spokesman for the Ministry of Security in Bamako did not know any details, but said the attack on Le Campement is still going on.

France and several African countries in the future work more closely against terrorism and illegal migration. Which announced French President Francois Hollande on Saturday after a meeting with more than thirty African heads of state and government officials in the Malian capital Bamako.

A French-Swiss aid worker was kidnapped Saturday in Mali's Gao. That confirmed a spokesman for the Ministry of Security.

Blue helmets have been found in northern Mali in 2000 kilos of explosives. The hidden explosives were extremists in the region have been able to commit hundreds of attacks, said a spokesman for the UN mission in Mali Minusma Thursday.

The Malian government should sever ties with the Tuareg militia which counts as the instigator of the recent tensions in northern Mali. The peace process in northern Mali is different in the proceedings and that Muslim extremists would play into the hands, put the United States.

Definitely a blue helmet on Sunday arrived in Mali killed when an explosive device blew up at a UN vehicle. Several soldiers of the peacekeeping force were wounded, told UN mission Minusma.

In Mali, the state of emergency from Thursday reinstated. Who had just finished last week, but after a bloody attack on a military base decided the government of the West African country still Wednesday to extend for at least ten days.

The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday decided to add additional 2500 soldiers to the MINUSMA peacekeeping force in Mali. The UN wants the force in the African country more,, let act proactively and vigorously. 'The Netherlands since April 2014 will contribute to the UN mission.

By terrorist attacks came four people died in two bases of the UN in northern Mali, including a blue helmet anyway. The other victims are civilians. There are also more than ten people were injured, three of whom seriously. That the UN peacekeeping mission (Minusma), to which the Netherlands participates with four hundred men, announced Wednesday.

Five soldiers of the peacekeeping force of the United Nations in Mali on Sunday killed the UN mission Minusma gekomen.Volgens drove a convoy into an ambush at the site Sevare in central Mali.

The three employees of the Red Cross rightly been missing since Saturday in northern Mali. They are, according to Peter Maurer, president of the international aid organization, unharmed and in good condition.,, The best news we could get our three colleagues in Mali are free, safe and sound, '' he tweeted.

Mali has arrested two suspects are associated with the deadly attack on a tourist resort in neighboring Ivory Coast. That military spokesmen confirm the country Sunday. The attack two weeks ago was claimed by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the North African branch of the terrorist movement.

Gunmen on Monday attacked a hotel in the capital Bamako Malinses. The hotel also stays Union troops who are there for a training mission.

Belgium takes the lead in July of European training mission of the Malian army in Germany. The number of Belgian soldiers will be more than doubled to 175.