French soldiers have killed a senior jihadist commander, Yahya Abou El Hamame, in an operation in Mali, France’s Defense Minister Florence Parly said Friday. The Algerian, an Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) commander, was allegedly responsible for the kidnapping of a number of Westerners in North and West Africa. ...
A senior government official in Mali, abducted by suspected terrorists last May, has been freed in a security operation, an official source told AFP Tuesday. Makan Doumbia, the prefect of Tenenkou — a commune in central Mali — “was freed Monday thanks to an action by state security”, or Mali’s ...
