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Resolute Mining chief executive Terry Holohan is detained in a hotel in Bamako.

Aussie gold miner faces $250m demand from Mali as CEO detained

Mali is demanding Resolute Mining pay up to resolve a tax dispute after its government detained the gold miner’s chief executive, according to people familiar with the matter.

  • William Clowes and Katarina Höije

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Resolute Mining chief executive Terry Holohan.

Australian gold miner Resolute’s CEO, executives detained in Mali

The detention of Terry Holohan and other company executives follows arrests in recent weeks in West Africa that have targeted fellow gold miner Barrick Gold.

  • Paul-Alain Hunt, Katarina Höije and William Clowes
Israeli and Malian football fans gathered inside the Parc des Princes stadium without incident.

Within a ring of steel, Israelis and Malians share a joyous two hours

The French capital was prepared for a riot when Israeli athletes competed for the first time in Paris. Then a soccer match broke out.

  • Chip Le Grand and Marta Pascual Juanola
Police officers patrol the Trocadero plaza near the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Paris security ramped up for Israel soccer match as Gaza tensions rise

Israel’s Olympic athletes are under 24-hour protection after a French MP declared they are not welcome in Paris.

  • Chip Le Grand and Marta Pascual Juanola
Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and top government officials were detained by mutinying soldiers in the capital Bamako, plunging a country already facing a jihadist insurgency and mass protests deeper into crisis.
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2020: Mutinying soldiers detain Mali president and PM

Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and top government officials were detained by mutinying soldiers in the capital Bamako, plunging a country already facing a jihadist insurgency and mass protests deeper into crisis.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company speaks to a camera at an unknown location.

‘Justice and happiness’: Yevgeny Prigozhin appears in fresh recruiting video

“The temperature is +50 – everything as we like,” the former mutineer said in a video some suspect was filmed in Africa.

  • Maxim Rodionov
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Wagner explainer

The Ukraine invasion put a spotlight on Putin’s ‘shadow army’. Now its leader is dead. Who are the Wagner Group?

From being covert mercenaries, the group gained a huge public profile, which was then boosted by a coup attempt. Where did Wagner come from and what has been its role in Ukraine?

  • Sherryn Groch
This image taken from a video shows soldiers burying bodies near an army base in northern Mali.

French military accuse Russian mercenaries of staging burials in Mali

The tweets and photos accuse the French of leaving mass graves in Mali. Spies have captured videos showing otherwise.

  • Sam Mednick
Nestlé is among seven companies named in the lawsuit.

‘Child slaves’ sue chocolate giants for forced labour in cocoa plantations

Nestle, Hershey and Mars are among the companies named in the suit.

  • Marvin G. Perez
France President Emmanuel Macron, right, stands as Sophie Petronin, centre, a French aid worker held hostages for four years by Islamic extremists in Mali, is greeted by relatives upon her arrival at the Villacoublay military airport near Paris.

Switzerland says Swiss hostage in Mali has been killed

Switzerland’s foreign minister condemned the killing of the hostage, Beatrice Stoeckli, whose release his country had quietly been trying to negotiate.

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