GAO, Mali (AFP) – An ancient capital of West Africa's Songhai empire, the Malian city of Gao was for centuries a bustling trade centre for Tuareg nomads taking lucrative camel caravans of gold ...

A Russian-built SU-24M bomber crashed into Niger River near Gao, Mali, a day after a major Africa Corps–FLA clash. The cause ...

GAO, Mali — Black-robed Islamic extremists armed with AK-47 automatic rifles invaded Gao in wooden boats Sunday to launch a surprise attack on the most populous city in northern Mali ...

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 ...

GAO, Mali – A Malian military spokesman says soldiers arrested two men who tried to blow themselves up on the outskirts of Gao. Modibo Traore told The Associated Press that the pair were wearing ...

On Friday, Mali’s armed forces reported a “complex” suicide attack on the airport area of the military base in the northern Gao region, according to a post on its official Facebook page.

Gao - Soldiers from Niger and Mali patrolled downtown Gao on foot on Tuesday, combing the sand footpaths through empty market stalls to prevent radical Islamic fighters from returning to this ...

DAKAR, SENEGAL — Weapons fire shook the northern Malian town of Gao on Thursday as Malian army troops backed by French and West African forces battled Islamist militants. A Mali defense ministry ...

So from the 2012 and the conflict start spreading all over, not just in the northern region, like less than 5% of the territory to the central regions Mopti and Gao and also the three borders of Mali, ...

Video has emerged of the catastrophic landing on 23 September of an Ilyushin Il-76 transport jet at Mali’s Gao International airport. Details are still emerging about the crash in the West ...