APA

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Mission for the Stabilization of Mali (MINUSMA) Tuesday voiced concern over what it called serious human rights abuses in the Bankass Circle in the centre of the country.

Two people taken hostage in Mali including the Prefect of Tenenkou (Mopti), Makan Doumbia have been freed, the secretary general of the Union of Civil Administrators, Ousmane Christian Diarra confirmed to APA on Tuesday.

At least five lawyers in the city of Nyala, South Darfur have been detained after taking part in a protest on Tuesday to show solidarity with anti-government marchers in other parts of Sudan demanding that President Omar al-Bashir step down.

The Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) announced Tuesday that it was abandoning its moral policing role in Mali’s northern town of Kidal, including a ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol.