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As many as 10.5 million children worldwide work as domestic servants, in what can be hazardous and even slave-like conditions.

• 13 июня 2013, 10:26

Some 74,000 Malians, who have been displaced by war and ethnic tensions, are in need of urgent help in the desert of Mauritania..

• 12 апреля 2013, 12:04

As France begins withdrawing its troops from Mali, a top US defence official has said a UN-mandated African force was "incapable" of taking over the battle against Islamist extremists.

• 10 апреля 2013, 12:26

UN leader Ban Ki-Moon called Monday for urgent international efforts to end the Western Sahara conflict because of fears the Mali war will spill over into the Moroccan-occupied territory.

• 09 апреля 2013, 16:55

A French force of 1,000 soldiers in a major offensive has swept a valley thought to be a logistics base for Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists near the Malian city of Gao.

• 09 апреля 2013, 13:45

Malian troops swept Timbuktu for remaining Islamist fighters after a weekend battle that left seven dead and forced France to dispatch reinforcements and fighter jets to help Mali's army.

• 01 апреля 2013, 11:51

The 4,000 French soldiers deployed in Mali to fight Islamist rebels will be reduced to 1,000 by the end of the year.

• 29 марта 2013, 16:53

Up to 11,200 troops could be needed for a peacekeeping mission in Mali but a "parallel" military force will have to battle radical Islamists.

• 27 марта 2013, 18:43

On the banks of the River Niger, mud-walled buildings festooned with tricolours mark out the ancient trading post of Gao, Mali's largest northern city where the French have been welcomed as heroes.

• 14 марта 2013, 16:40

Intrigued, Amadou picked up a discarded grenade to play with outside an earth hut in central Mali. When he threw it, it exploded and he lost all the fingers on his left hand.

• 12 марта 2013, 11:28

France's surprise intervention in northern Mali against Islamist fighters involved in lucrative drug-running has disrupted cocaine supply to Europe but smugglers are already finding new routes.

• 11 марта 2013, 12:43

Claiming to have killed two Islamist leaders in the Mali conflict so far, Chad is emerging as a regional superpower whose strong army is brushing up the image of what was once most known as one of the world's poorest nations.

• 06 марта 2013, 11:07

UNESCO is ready to send experts to Mali to assess damage to cultural treasures in the troubled north as soon as security conditions allow.

• 05 марта 2013, 16:02

More than seven weeks into its intervention to root out Islamist rebels in Mali, the French army keeps a tight lid on details of the operation -- a policy some call a public relations fumble.

• 04 марта 2013, 16:34

Al-Qaeda's top commander in Mali has been killed, Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno said Friday, in what would be one of the most significant blows to the rebels in the seven-week French-led intervention against Islamist insurgents.

• 02 марта 2013, 14:11

The conflict in northern Mali has disrupted the education of nearly three quarters of a million children.

• 25 февраля 2013, 17:05

In northern Mali, the country's army frequently turns to torture and murder against people suspected of backing armed Islamist groups.

• 21 февраля 2013, 15:37

The United States is likely to play a more active military role in Mali, where French-led forces are battling Islamist rebels, after the country holds elections.

• 19 февраля 2013, 14:44

The minister responsible for organising elections meant to haul Mali out of crisis said Friday the timeline can be changed, after interim president Dioncounda Traore raised eyebrows by promising a vote by July 31.

• 16 февраля 2013, 14:15

Russia revealed Wednesday it was supplying guns to Mali's government, as French troops defused a massive bomb in the north of the country, the latest bid by Islamist rebels to strike back.

• 14 февраля 2013, 11:36