Baba Ahmed

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Mali editor held over listing salary of coup chief

Baba Ahmed · March 6, 2013 9:28 pm

Mali rebels fighting in Gao; car explodes in Kidal

Baba Ahmed · February 21, 2013 6:10 pm

A convoy of Malian troops makes a stop to test some of their weapons near Hambori, northern Mali, on the road to Gao, Monday Feb. 4, 2013. French troops launched airstrikes on Islamic militant training camps and arms depots around Kidal and Tessalit in Mali's far north, defense officials said Sunday, as the first supply convoy of food, fuel and parts to eastern Mali headed across the country. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

French troops to quit Timbuktu this week

Baba Ahmed · February 5, 2013 5:00 am

French seize control of 2 key Mali towns

Baba Ahmed, Rukmini Callimachi · January 21, 2013 5:00 am

Young men play football in Bamako, Mali.

Mali: French troops begin land assault

Baba Ahmed, Rukmini Callimachi · January 16, 2013 5:00 am

French defense minister Jean Yves Le Drian addresses reporters during a press conference held at the defense ministry in Paris, Tuesday Jan. 15, 2013. Map at left shows the operations zone in Mali. France carried out new airstrikes overnight against Islamist fighters in central Mali.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

French triple troops in Mali, prepare for assault

Baba Ahmed, Rukmini Callimachi · January 15, 2013 5:00 am

French citizen Nicole Obre Toure carries a bag to her car as she prepares to leave the region where she has lived for 12 years, in Segou, central Mali, Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. As Islamist militants gained ground Monday morning, Toure decided to move from the village where she lives into Segou, the regional capital. Once there, however, she learned that the French government had ordered the immediate evacuation of French citizens from the area. Despite intensive aerial bombardments by French warplanes, Islamist insurgents grabbed more territory in Mali Monday and moved closer to the capital, French and Malian authorities said. (AP Photo/Harouna Traore)

Mali rebels make gains, vow to avenge French bombs

Baba Ahmed, Rukmini Callimachi · January 14, 2013 5:00 am

Franch Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, right, speaks during a press conference, in Paris, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013. Le Drian said hundreds of French troops are involved in an operation that destroyed a command center of Islamic rebels in Mali. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Hundreds of French troops drive back Mali rebels

Baba Ahmed, Rukmini Callimachi · January 12, 2013 5:00 am

Mali army, Islamist rebels clash

Baba Ahmed · January 10, 2013 12:06 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2012 file photo, women wearing veils as mandated by Islamist group Ansar Dine, walk along a street in Timbuktu, Mali. The Mali army attacked Islamist rebels with heavy weapons in the center of the country which divides the insurgent-held north and the government-controlled south, government officials said Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/File)

Islamists clash with military, take key Mali town

Baba Ahmed, Krista Larson · January 10, 2013 5:00 am

Official: Mali Islamists closer to gov’t areas

Baba Ahmed · January 7, 2013 10:27 pm

Mali militants seek peace after UN backs force

Baba Ahmed · December 21, 2012 9:27 pm