Mali communities denounce female genital cutting in public ceremony
The benchmark, or typical, price for a detached home in east Vancouver was $869,000 in January.
View ArticleToday is a Significant Day in Mali
Just outside the capital city of Bamako, in the bustling suburb of Yirimadio , 14 neighborhoods have been preparing for a life-changing event.
View ArticleCharity's cellphones help remote villagers monitor rulers
Mobile phones sit in a roadside repair kiosk that charges phones using a solar panel near the village of Kassela, 50 kms east of the Malian capital Bamako, June 19, 2012.
View ArticleNo to female genital cutting - Mali women
Zimbabwe's ex-finance minister has reportedly called on President Robert Mugabe to "come out of his closet" and provide direction on the crisis gripping the country.
View ArticleInter-ethnic fighting in north Mali leaves 30 dead
Around 30 ethnic Tuaregs were killed in northern Mali's Gao region in localised fighting with ethnic Peuls, the Ministry of Defence said on Friday.
View ArticleInitial talks with Mali rebels may begin next week: PM
Mali's prime minister said on Friday he could begin initial talks as early as next week to try and end recurrent revolts by mainly Tuareg rebels trying to carve out an independent state in the desert...
View ArticleMali communities renounce female circumcision
Community leaders gathered in Mali Thursday to mark an international day of campaigning against female genital mutilation, publicly renouncing a practice that is still legal in the deeply conservative...
View ArticleMali says MUJWA Islamist group responsible for killing 31 Tuaregs
The Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa was responsible for killing 31 Tuaregs in an attack on Friday near the town of Tamkoutat in northern Mali, the minister for interior security said on...
View ArticleMali blames terrorists for violence in north
J.C. Acosta, CFO and executive in charge of production for Viacom in the Americas touts the success of 'Every Witch Way.'
View ArticleSpare-parts dealers protest forex controls
The new foreign currency rules issued by the Bank of Ghana will push importers away from the banks and erode gains made in enticing people into the banking system, Mr. Siaw Ampadu, chairman of the Used...
View ArticleRed Cross: 4 employees missing in northern Mali
Jean-Yves Clemenzo said Monday that the International Committee of the Red Cross was last in touch with the vehicle Saturday morning and that it went missing later that day while traveling from the...
View ArticleICRC says aid workers missing in Mali
The ANC is reportedly planning to send its Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa to mediate in war-torn South Sudan in response to a request by President Salva Kiir to President Jacob Zuma.
View ArticleMiners strike at AngloGold Mali sites over redundancy package
Workers at AngloGold Ashanti's Sadiola and Yatela gold mines in Mali started a five-day strike on Monday, demanding better redundancy payouts, a union official said.
View ArticleHistoric French development law makes aid more transparent, democratic
A Malian woman looks at men carrying humanitarian food aid onto pirogues at Mopti for areas recently liberated by French and Malian troops.
View ArticleIt's Soo cold but Koite will warm up Aeolian Hall Thursday
Guitarist singer-songwriter Habib Koite performs Thursday at Aeolian Hall. The West African is touring North America and promoting his new album Soo, which means 'home' in his native Mali.
View ArticleThe scribe of Bamako
There are a thousand ways to say "I love you". Alassane Maiga's job is to pick the right one for each customer, reports Alex Duval Smith from Bamako, the capital of Mali.
View ArticleWaiting for Justice for Mali's Missing Soldiers
Aminata Diarra holds up a picture of her brother Malamine, a Red Beret who disappeared in early May 2012.
View ArticleUK spends millions of pounds of aid money at home -paper
Aoussa Dicko, a resident of Timbuktu who fled fighting in her hometown last year, sits on the veranda of her new home at a camp for displaced persons outside Bamako, Mali, July 23, 2013.
View ArticleMali: UN experts find 'serious damage' by armed extremists to cultural sites...
The report on the damage to cultural heritage in the town of Gao, addressing both sites and the cultural practices of local people, follows a UN assessment last year of Timbuktu, another major heritage...
View ArticleMali arrests ex-defence minister over paratroopers' deaths
Authorities in Mali arrested former defence minister General Yamoussa Camara on Thursday in a fresh sign of the government's attempts to regain control of the army after a coup in 2012 that plunged the...
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