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A timeline of Mali’s recent political instability

With Mali experiencing another coup amid widespread protests, could the country fall back into chaos?

Libyan tribes, their loyalties, and Egypt's bait, explained

Egypt is threatening the UN-backed government of Libya with a tribal rebellion, but many tribe leaders have slammed the former military general. Here's a breakdown of Libya's tribal demographics.

Hope evaporates as climate change dehydrates northern Mali

Northern Mali's population is fast dwindling as people flee desertification, drought and armed conflict only to end up in places where they face increased competition for resources.

France's neo-colonial ‘War on Terror’ in Mali

French-backed militarisation in Mali is aimed at protecting its economic interests, and only compounds Mali's problems.

Mali attack toll rises to 23: army

Sunday's assault by a group with suspected terror links on an army camp killed 23 soldiers, military sources said on Monday, raising an initial death toll of 21.

Violence-hit Mali extends emergency by a year

The eighth largest country in Africa and one of the poorest in the world, the landlocked Sahel state has been grappling with violence since 2012. It has faced a wave of violence by groups linked to Al Qaeda and Tuareg separatist rebels.

Suspicion of electoral fraud revives ethnic tension in Mali

Eighteen of the 24 candidates in the election have accused the minister minister of territorial administration and decentralisation of being responsible for an "electoral robbery."

Suspected militants kill at least 40 Tuaregs in Mali - official

Mostly young men were killed in two attacks in northern Menaka region, which seem calculated to spark an ethnic conflict between Tuareg and Fulani herders, governor Daouda Maiga says.

Four engineers working for Turkish construction firm kidnapped in Libya

A group of armed men kidnapped ENKA workers while they were travelling from the airport in the southwestern Libyan town of Ubari. Three of the employees have been identified as Turkish.

Five killed in attack on Mali resort

Although the attackers succeeded in mounting a lethal attack, security forces backed by French and UN troops managed to rescue 36 residents including 13 French citizens.

Over 40 migrants reported dead in Sahara after truck breakdown

Six survivors walked to a remote village where they said that 44 people, mostly from Ghana and Nigeria and including three babies and two other children, died of dehydration, according to the department head for the Red Cross in the Bilma region.