Timbuktu - Political Scandals

A hotel manager and a guide have been arrested in Mali for involvement in the abduction of two Frenchmen in the northern town of Hombori last month, security and judicial sources told AFP Wednesday.Security and judicial sources confirmed that the unnamed ...

The kidnappers of two Frenchmen snatched in Mali last month have been arrested, security sources said Monday, while video footage emerged of three other Europeans held by an Al-Qaeda splinter group."The group responsible for the abduction of the two Frenchmen in ...

Al-Qaeda's north African wing was behind the kidnapping of two "French spies" and three other Europeans in Mali last month, according to a non-authenticated statement purportedly from the group.In a statement sent to AFP in Rabat, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic ...

A car said to belong to the kidnappers who abducted two Frenchmen from a hotel in the Malian town of Hombori has been found in northern Mali, a local security source said on Sunday."One of the vehicles of the kidnappers of ...

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