The Latest Breaking News from Mali

Ten million children in west Africa's central Sahel region are now in "extreme jeopardy" and desperately need humanitarian help due to worsening violence, the United Nations warned Friday. The number of children in dire need of aid in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger is twice as many as in 2020,…

A second high-ranking Vatican official has said Pope Francis authorized spending hundreds of thousands of euros in ransom payments to try to free a nun who was kidnapped by al-Qaida-linked militants in Mali

UNICEF says the number of children in extreme jeopardy has doubled since 2020.

First trip to Niger by a US secretary of state comes amid regional security crisis and growing Russian influence.

Blinken to be first US secretary of state to visit country amid concerns over Sahel security, growing Russian influence.

The Mauritanian authorities announced that an anti-terrorism military unit carried out a special operation in a remote desert area, killing three of the four al-Qaeda members who escaped from the central prison in Nouakchott a week ago. The fleeing prisoners were apprehended about 400 km northeast of the capital en…

French journalist Olivier Dubois was taken hostage in Mali nearly two years ago. His family and support group regularly contact the French authorities and try to raise public awareness, but as time passes, they fear negotiations for his release have stagnated.

The Grand Mosque of Djenne, the biggest mud-brick building in the world, is preserved annually by the citizens of a small village.

The delay means the military will miss the first deadline on its own timetable to return the country to civilian rule.

Mali's transitional government said on Friday it would delay a constitutional referendum that had been set to take place this month, the first in a series of scheduled polls meant to restore democracy after a military takeover in 2020.

As extremist violence in West Africa’s Sahel region spreads south toward coastal states, the United States military has launched its annual military training exercise which will help armies contain the jihadi threat