Landmines outside Gao show Mali’s guerrilla war has started
Landmines on the road out from Gao, recently liberated from the jihadis, shows Mali’s conflict is entering a new stage, and the French will have to tread more softly when they reach Kidal.
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French President Francois Hollande arrives in Timbuktu, Mali, six days after French forces parachuted in the town to recapture it from Al-Qaeda linked militants.
Landmines on the road out from Gao, recently liberated from the jihadis, shows Mali’s conflict is entering a new stage, and the French will have to tread more softly when they reach Kidal.
International Editor Lindsey Hilsum hears the brutal and distressing testimony of those who lived through the rule of Al Qaeda in the Maghreb in Gao.
Mali is the country that falls the furthest in the Reporters Without Borders press freedom index as a result of the conflict which still divides the nation.
UK troops will be sent to Mali, Downing Street confirms. But as the list of “non-combat” roles provided by the armed forces grows, is the mission already starting to creep?
The name of Mokhtar Belmokhtar went global when it was associated with the Algerian hostage crisis at a remote gas plant. But just how much of a true jihadi is he?
The war in Mali has been characterised as a simple battle between Islamic fundamentalists and French forces lending support to the Malian army and government, but the reality is a little more complex.
UK support for the French-led military operation in Mali could be cranked up after David Cameron’s vow to show “iron resolve” in tackling Islamist terrorism in the wake of the Algerian hostage crisis.
Khat, a stimulant drug, is chewed by around 90,000 people in the east African and Yemeni communities in the UK. But now the Home Office is considering banning the substance. Jamal Osman finds out why.
Britain is on standby and the US is already transporting French troops into Mali. But a new paper says the west is “betting on the wrong horse” by intervening in the region.
French and Malian forces enter the central Mali town of Diabaly today after the al Qaeda-linked Islamist rebels who seized it a week ago took cover in the bush to avoid air strikes.
Prime Minister David Cameron confirms that three British nationals have been killed in the Algerian hostage crisis and that a further three, along with a British resident, are missing and feared dead.
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports from Nioni, Mali, on the fear that the Algerian hostage crisis marks a new level of terror which could sweep Mali.
David Cameron’s Commons statement on the hostage situation in Algeria begs all sorts of questions about UK involvement in the region.
As the Algerian operation continues to free western hostages kidnapped by Islamist militants at a gas plant in the Sahara, Channel 4 News looks at the events that precipitated the crisis.