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Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has been re-elected for a five-year term after winning a landslide in a runoff ballot, according to official figures Thursday.... Read more via Capital News – https://ift.tt/2OCm3dV Get more World News

Mali’s security services said Saturday they had disrupted a plot to carry out “targeted attacks” in the capital Bamako on the eve of a runoff in a presidential election marred by security breaches. Sunday’s second round is likely to return Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to the helm of Mali … Read...

Eleven Fulani civilians were kidnapped and killed in the latest bout of ethnic violence to hit Mali, local groups said Thursday, while an official put the toll at 14. The attack, which occurred in the restive central region of Mopti on Tuesday, was attributed to hunters from the … Read more...

At least 32 civilians were killed and ten are missing following an attack in central Mali, believed to have been carried out by ethnic hunters, local officials said Sunday. Armed Dozo hunters, linked to the.... Read more via Iol.co.za News – https://ift.tt/2MiCsD2 Get more World News

Mali’s defence minister on Tuesday admitted soldiers were involved in killings in the country’s unstable centre, after the discovery of a mass grave added to accusations of summary executions by government troops. The announcement came after an NGO called Kisal, which campaigns for the human...

Four UN peacekeepers were killed and four were wounded on Wednesday when a mine exploded under their vehicle in central Mali in a deliberate attack, the UN mission in the country said. Jihadists have ramped up their activities in central Mali in recent months, targeting domestic and foreign...

The northern governors’ forum (NGF) has blamed foreign herdsmen for the killings in Southern Kaduna. Kashim Shettima, chairman of the forum and governor of Borno state, disclosed this to journalists at the end of the forum’s meeting in Kaduna. He said the herdsmen usually came in from...

A military source has confirmed that the five Malian soldiers who went missing after a terrorist attack in Mali's central region of Mopti over the weekend were found dead in river Niger. The source said on Thursday in Bamako that four bodies were found on Tuesday evening while one other body...