Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mali's relations with France have deteriorated since Assimi Goita, centre, took over as leader in a coup four years ago [File: AP ...

Leader of Mali's ruling junta Lt. Col. Assimi Goita, attends an independence day military parade in Bamako, Mali on 22 September, 2022. Relations between France and Mali have worsened, after France ...

BAMAKO/MONTREUIL (Reuters) - In December, Moussa Sacko spent his birthday in Mali scrolling through messages from friends with whom he celebrated a year earlier on Paris' Champs-Elysees. He hasn't ...

On the liberated streets of the Malian town of Niono, French flags haven't fluttered like they do today since colonial times, NBC News reported. But the old imperial powers are back—and they are, for ...

France’s foreign ministry has said Mali’s decision to replace Western security partnerships with Russian-backed forces has failed to deliver stability, as Islamist militants tighten their grip on the ...

Mali's military coup presents former colonial power France with a diplomatic nightmare, having invested considerable military and political capital in a regional anti-jihadist campaign now in peril.

France has suspended counterterrorism cooperation with Mali and expelled two Malian diplomats, the French foreign ministry said Friday. ・France has suspended counterterrorism cooperation with Mali ...

Mali’s prime minister lashed out Saturday at former colonizer France, the U.N. secretary-general and many people in between, saying that the tumultuous country had been “stabbed in the back" by the ...