The Latest Breaking News from Mali

Mali is marking its Independence Day celebrations with a military parade featuring fighter planes

This collaboration between the son of Mali guitar legend Ali Farka Touré and the hypnotic Houston trio defies categorisation to float off in its own beatific and unhurried mood

Fighters from the Coordination of Azawad Movements take charge of maintaining security in the strategic town of Kidal.

Faced with a record $32 billion shortfall in humanitarian aid funding, the United Nations is dipping deep into its emergency fund to support critical programmes in 11 countries including Myanmar and Mali.

Ivory Coast called on West Africa's political bloc to help release 46 soldiers detained by Mali's military government, a government spokesperson said on Wednesday, after a Togolese-led mediation effort appeared to have stalled.

Tension between Mali and Côte d’Ivoire has flared up again after Bamako demanded that Malian politicians in exile in Côte d’Ivoire be handed over to Malian authorities. This in exchange for the release of Ivorian soldiers held in custody since July.

Diplomatic tensions between Mali and Ivory Coast deepen after Bamako sets conditions for the return of dozens of Ivorian soldiers arrested two months ago. Also, Ethiopia's New Year celebrations are overshadowed by an economic crisis. And anti-smoking campaigners in Senegal warn against the damage caused to young bodies when they…

Mali's interim president wants a mutually beneficial solution to end a diplomatic row over 46 Ivorian soldiers detained in Mali, noting that Ivory Coast has given asylum to political figures wanted by his junta, state television said on Saturday.

Members of an Islamic State affiliate in Mali killed about 30 civilians in an attack this week on a town in a violence-plagued area bordering Burkina Faso and Niger, a coalition of pro-government militia said late on Friday.