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Since its closure in March 2012, following the occupation of the city by armed groups, it is this Monday, October 30 that the Kidal High School reopened.
A total of 13 students, 6 girls and 7 boys, are returning to...
From local sources, fighting opposed early this Thursday morning, the Coordination Azawad Movements (CMA) and the Imghad and Allied Self-Defense Group (Gatia), two signatory movements of the peace agreement, in the south of Aguelhoc in the Kidal region.
Weapons are...
Many people were on the streets in Gao, where many roads were blocked, according to local sources reached by Sahelien.com. The demonstrators ask a priori for the “departure of the governor” accused of bad governance and to having “no...
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Mali : In the absence of the state, a village in Mopti region takes...
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Mali’s electoral cycle fraught with obstacles and instability
To avoid further political conflict, broad agreement is needed on the best possible conditions for elections.
Mali is entering an electoral cycle comprising local and...
Mali: IBK “worried to the highest degree” by the security situation in the center
At the UN General Assembly, Mali's President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, said he was “concerned” by the security situation in the central regions of the...
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