Twenty-seven people were killed in clashes between members of the same Tuareg tribe in Mali’s troubled northeast earlier this week, the West African state’s security ministry said Thursday. Previous ...

Al Qaeda’s Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, or JNIM) released a short audio message yesterday from its Saudi spokesman, Abu Dujana al-Qasimi. Qasimi frames ...

Northeast Mali (near Gao and the Niger border) is where ISGS, the local branch of ISIL operates and these Islamic extremists do not get along with the local Tuareg tribes. This ISIL franchise is ...

Three months after the completion of a peace deal to end decades of conflict in northern Mali, stability remains an elusive dream undermined by tribal rivalries and internecine power struggles.

May 27, 2026: JNIM/Jama’at Nusrat al Islam wa al Muslimeen recently carried out an attack to capture several towns in northern Mali. The territory threatened included the Kidal and Gao areas. This was ...

During the Middle Ages there rose in West Africa a kingdom of warlike tribes that came to be known as the Empire of the Mali (rhymes with Bali). Among its greatest rulers was a crippled boy named ...

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