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Uganda will be hoping to keep their World Cup qualification hopes high as they take on Kenya on Thursday, November 11. The game is set to take place at St. Mary’s stadium. With eight points, Uganda currently sits second in Group E and are led by Mali which has 10 points. Mali is also set to take on bottom-placed Rwanda ...

In just five months, Africa has experienced three violent but successful military takeovers in the countries of Mali, Chad and Guinea, where new leaders have ascended to power from their respective militaries. First came Mali, where on the night of May 24, the Malian Army led by then Vice President Colonel Assimi Goïta captured and detained President Bah N’daw and ...

On Monday, the military in Mali arrested the country’s president, Bah Ndaw, and his Prime Minister Moctar Ouane after a cabinet reshuffle. Reports say that the two, along with Defense Minister Souleymane Doucoure were arrested and taken to Kati, a centre outside Bamako.The circumstances under which the military held them are currently unclear.Former president Boubacar Keita got overthrown in August ...

Cases of women carrying septuplets for nine months and successfully delivering them are very rare. For nonuplets, even rarer! However, a woman in Mali has proven to be strong when she gave birth to a set of nine babies at once. The government of Mali, on March 30, flew a 25-year-old Halima Cisse out to Morocco so that she could ...

In a thrilling 2-0 victory over Mali, Morocco managed to take home the African Nations Football trophy. They became the first back-to-back winners of the tournament since it started in September 2007. Soufiane Bouftini broke the goal drought in the 69th minute with a header that easily saw the back of Mali’s net. 10 minutes after the first goal, the ...