More than 50 people were killed near Mali's northeastern city of Gao on Friday after armed assailants ambushed their convoy and its army escort, a local official and residents said.

around 30 km from Gao in a region where groups linked to Islamic State and Al Qaeda have been active for over a decade, destabilising Mali and its neighbours Burkina Faso and Niger. According to ...

with local sources telling Agence France-Presse that Wagner mercenaries and Mali's army were responsible. A relative of the driver of one of the vehicles told AFP from the northern city of Gao ...

mostly miners from Niger and traders from Mali, as they travelled from the towns of Gao to Ansongo, about 90 kilometers south, along a road where civilians had previously been attacked.

A medical source said many of the dead and wounded had been transferred to Gao, the main city in northern Mali. A source from a transport trade union said: “According to a transporter who ...

Mali's army said in a statement late on Monday ... in the two vehicles in the Tilemsi region," a representative from the Gao region told AFP. "In total, in the two vehicles, there are at least ...