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Fifteen UN peacekeepers were injured while withdrawing from a rebel stronghold in northern Mali after their vehicles were hit by explosives.

DAKAR: Islamist armed groups and Malian soldiers killed at least 175 civilians, many of them children, between April and September in Mali, Human Rights Watch has said, condemning the targeted...

Dakar, Senegal: Islamist armed groups and Malian soldiers killed at least 175 civilians, many of them children, between April and September in Mali, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said, condemning the targeted killing of civilians as war crimes.

Islamist armed groups and Malian armed forces have killed and otherwise abused numerous civilians in central and northern Mali since April 2023. Violence has intensified across Mali following the May 2021 coup. The targeted killing of civilians by Islamist armed groups and the Malian army are war crimes. Malian authorities, with international support, should urgently conduct credible and impartial investigations into the alleged abuses, and hold those responsible to account. (Nairobi, November

Regular passengers of the "Tombouctou", a ferry whose route runs along the Niger River in northern Mali, are accustomed to hearing gunfire from the riverbank during their journeys. The blasts that forced passengers to hit the deck that day heralded a deluge of gunfire.