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Twisted metal lies at the site of a morning car bomb attack inside a military camp in Agadez, in northern Niger, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously on Thursday, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing a total of 26 people and injuring 30, according to officials in Niger and France. Both attacks were claimed by a spinoff of al-Qaida, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, or MUJAO, which earlier vowed to avenge the four-month-old French-led military intervention which ousted them from town's in Mali's north.(AP Photo)

Extremists claim responsibility for Niger attacks

Rukmini Callimachi, Dalatou Mamane -

May 23, 2013 4:00 am

C. African Republic president flees to Cameroon

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C. African Republic president flees to Cameroon

Rukmini Callimachi, Christopher Torchia -

March 25, 2013 12:00 am

Video story: French, Mali forces retake airport in city of Gao

Video story: French, Mali forces retake airport in city of Gao

Rukmini Callimachi, Krista Larson -

January 26, 2013 5:00 am

French seize control of 2 key Mali towns

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, Tuesday Jan. 15, 2013. French forces led an all-night aerial bombing campaign Tuesday to wrest control of a small Malian town from armed Islamist extremists who seized the area, including its strategic military camp. A a convoy of 40 to 50 trucks carrying French troops crossed into Mali from Ivory Coast as France prepares for a possible land assault. Several thousand soldiers from the nations neighboring Mali are also expected to begin arriving in coming days. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2012 file photo, Mali Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York. A policy officer and an intelligence official have confirmed that Mali's prime minister was arrested at his home late on Monday, Dec. 10, 2012, by the soldiers who helped lead a recent coup. For several weeks, tension has been mounting between the soldiers who led Mali's March 21 coup and Diarra, the civilian prime minister they were forced to appoint when they handed back power to a transitional government.(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Mali’s PM forced to resign, after arrest by junta

Baba Ahmed, Rukmini Callimachi -

December 12, 2012 12:45 am

Junior Mutsima, 11, who was wounded by a bullet to the thorax Nov. 19 2012, sits on his bed at the Heal Africa hospital in Goma Monday Nov. 26, 2012. Regional leaders meeting in Uganda called for an end to the advance by M23 rebels toward Congo's capital, and also urged the Congolese government to sit down with rebel leaders as residents fled some towns for fear of more fighting between the rebels and army.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay )

Rebels patrol in Congo city as deadline passes

Rukmini Callimachi, Melanie Gouby -

November 26, 2012 5:00 am

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