The UN Security Council is hearing reports that caches of weapons and ammunition left over from the collapse of Muammar Qadhafi’s Libyan regime are being flown and shipped into Syria.

Representatives of armed groups from northern Mali have been attending a pre-consultative meeting held by the Malian Presidency in the capital Bamako since Sunday, according to official sources. Participants include delegates of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), the Supreme Council of Azawad Unity (HCUA), the Azawad …

Youths affiliated to Mali’s main Tuareg separatist group on Sunday tried to prevent a plane carrying three ministers from landing in their northern bastion of Kidal and later pelted their convoy with rocks, officials and witnesses said.