Military in Burkina Faso confirms coup, dissolves government
By BRAHIMA OUEDRAOGO and BABA AHMED Burkina’s military seized the airwaves and installed a general loyal to the ex-president Thursday as the new head of state, carrying out a coup…
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Official: 4 rescued from Mali hotel; 9 killed in attack
By BABA AHMED Special forces early Saturday rescued four people who hid in a hotel for nearly 24 hours after Islamic extremists stormed the building and launched a shootout that…
Mali: 3 dead in rocket attack on UN base in Kidal in north
By BABA AHMED BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Three people including a U.N. soldier were killed and 14 wounded in a rocket attack early Sunday on a U.N. base in Mali’s…
‘Timbuktu’ director breaks down over Mali conflict
By THOMAS ADAMSON Director Abderrahmane Sissako holds his hands over his face while answering a question during a press conference for Timbuktu at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern…
$0.60 FOR CAKE: AL-QAIDA RECORDS EVERY EXPENSE
FOR — USE MONDAY, DEC. 30, 2013 AND THEREAFTER – FILE – In this July 23, 2013 file photo, United Nations peacekeepers search a house suspected to have been used…
AP REPORTER’S QUEST TO FIND BODIES ENDS IN DESERT
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI In this July 23, 2013 photo, Sidi Fassoukoy, searching for his missing brother, covers his nose against the smell as he unearths the remains of two men…
EU calls for higher turnout in Mali runoff vote
Malian women walk around a polling station waiting for it to close in Mali’s parliamentary elections in Gao, Northern Mali, Sunday Nov. 24, 2013. Malians trickled in to vote in…
French parish priest kidnapped in north Cameroon
By ELAINE GANLEY RECROPPED VERSION OF REB103 – This July 2011handout photo provided by the Sceaux city hall, north of Paris, shows French kidnapped priest Georges Vandenbeusch. A French priest…