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News24
March 21, 2018
The Malian government has not set foot in Kidal since fighting broke out in May 2014 during a visit by then prime minister Moussa Mara, which ended with ... The premier's tour will also include the northern cities of Gao, Tessalit and Timbuktu as well as towns in the centre of the country, where Maiga saidÃâà...
GuelphMercury.com
March 20, 2018
That's in part because Canada's contribution to support the United Nations peace force there will likely be based in a well-defended military base in the country's eastern city of Gao, Gen. Jonathan Vance told The Canadian Press. "There is an environmental threat just by being in Africa. It's been said byÃâà...
CityNews
March 20, 2018
That's in part because Canada's contribution to support the United Nations peace force there will likely be based in a well-defended military base in the country's eastern city of Gao, Gen. Jonathan Vance told The Canadian Press. “There is an environmental threat just by being in Africa. It's been said byÃâà...
WellandTribune.ca
March 18, 2018
A French soldier stands inside a military helicopter during a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to the troops of Operation Barkhane, France's largest overseas military operation, in Gao, northern Mali, Friday, May 19, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Christophe Petit Tesson, POOL - TheÃâà...
Toronto Star
March 18, 2018
Conservative critic questions Liberal plan to send Canadian peacekeepers to Mali ... A United Nations peacekeeping truck is seen in Gao, Mali. ... A senior government source, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed late Friday night that Canada will dispatch an aviation task force to Mali as part of aÃâà...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
March 14, 2018
Since 2012, we have supported services in the referral hospital in Ansongo, in the Gao region, including outpatients, emergency care and hospitalisation, maternal health, treatment of chronic illnesses, nutrition, and neonatal and paediatric services. At the community health centre in the town, renovated byÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 12, 2018
In 2012, they launched a fresh, pro-independence rebellion under the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA). In parallel, a jihadist insurgency, Ansar Dine, seized three of Mali's largest cities - Kidal, Gao, and Timbuktu. The Malian army then mutinied, angry at President Amadou ToumanÃâà...
defenceWeb
March 5, 2018
An al Qaeda affiliate in Mali released a video of French aid worker Sophie Petronin, kidnapped in late 2016. ... Since France's 2013 military intervention drove back al-Qaeda-linked groups that had seized cities and towns in northern Mali a year earlier, Islamist militants have repeatedly declared FrenchÃâà...
Long War Journal
February 21, 2018
French forces patrolling near the northern Malian town of Bourem in the Gao region in 2013. (Source) ... In that operation, French forces conducted three simultaneous raids, accompanied with airstrikes, on JNIM positions near the towns of Boughessa, Mali, and Tinzaouatene in Algeria. Several senior JNIMÃâà...
The Cipher Brief
February 20, 2018
Northern Mali, also known as the region of Azawad, is comprised of three provinces – Timbuktu, Gao and Kidal. ... The CMA signed a peace agreement with the Malian government in June 2015 after months of Algerian-mediated talks, which mandated: increased northern representation in governmentÃâà...
eNCA
February 11, 2018
The mayor had been named in an enquiry into a drug-smuggling operation in 2009 involving a Boeing 727 flown from Venezuela and burnt after unloading the cargo in the northern Gao region, according to the UN drugs agency. He was arrested for cocaine trafficking in April 2013 but released months laterÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 6, 2018
At the ICRC-supported orthopaedic centre in the town of Gao, staff and patients talk about their challenges – and their hopes for the future. At 8am the doors have just opened to the orthopaedic centre in Gao, northern Mali, and already the first patients are making their way in, some on crutches, others inÃâà...
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
Five migrants who had reached Mali told Human Rights Watch in separate phone interviews that police in the north-central Algerian city of Ghardaia ... They said they walked in the desert for six hours to reach In Khalil, the first town in Mali, then took privately owned trucks heading toward the town of Gao.
eNCA
December 31, 1999
The same group has been linked to six other kidnappings in recent years. Sophie Petronin ran a charity for malnourished and orphaned children. She'd lived in the north-eastern Gao city for 15 years before her abduction. Her family says the video appears to indicate that her health has deteriorated.
Gulf Times
December 31, 1999
Petronin ran a charity for malnourished and orphan children and had lived in the city of Gao, in Mali's volatile northeast, for 15 years when she was ... Since France's 2013 military intervention drove back Al Qaeda-linked groups that had seized cities and towns in northern Mali a year earlier, militants haveÃâà...
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