GENEVA, February 7 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has deployed emergency teams to countries surrounding Mali to help meet the needs of some 20,000 people who have been forced to flee fighting in the ...
In this adapted excerpt, we meet Balla Kouyaté, one in a long line of West African "djelis," men who function as living ...
DAKAR (Reuters) - A powerful southern offensive by Islamists in Mali last week, halted only by French air strikes, showed that a loose alliance of rebels from al Qaeda's North African wing and local ...
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed at a spike in intercommunal violence in central Mali which over the past weeks has driven some 3,000 people into neighbouring Burkina Faso. Dozens of people ...
A week after three Indians were kidnapped in Mali, their families say they still have no information about their whereabouts and are concerned about their safety. India's foreign ministry said the men ...