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…
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Correction: Mali-Kidnapping story
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI and ELAINE GANLEY This combination of undated photos provided by Radio France International shows journalists Ghislaine Dupont, left, and Claude Verlon. French and Malian officials said gunmen…
Mali’s coup leader summoned by judiciary
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI FILE – In this March 31, 2012 file photo, junta leader Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo speaks to journalists at his headquarters in the Kati military camp, just…
GERMANY GETS ITS 1ST BLACK MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
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WOMAN TAKEN HOSTAGE IN MALI BACK IN TIMBUKTU
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI FILE – In this April 24, 2012 file photo, released Swiss hostage Beatrice Stockli, left, arrives by helicopter from Timbuktu, Mali after being handed over by a militant…
C. AFRICAN REPUBLIC HOSPITALS LOOTED AFTER COUP
By JOSE RICHARD POUAMBI and RUKMINI CALLIMACHI FILE – In this Jan. 7, 2013 file photo, Central African Republic rebel leader Michel Djotodia arrives ahead of planned peace talks with…
C. AFRICAN REPUBLIC PRESIDENT FLEES TO CAMEROON
By EMMANUEL TUMANJONG and RUKMINI CALLIMACHI Foto del 2 de enero del 2013 de un soldado de Chad que apoya al presidente de la República Centroafricana Francois Bozize, cerca de…