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A project to restore 14 historic mausoleums destroyed in Timbuktu three years ago by hardline Islamists is due to finish at the end of July, the Art Newspaper has reported. The news was announced in Bonn, Germany, at the 39th session of UNESCO?s World Heritage Committee, which is scheduled to end today.

Mali's warring factions on June 18 looked close to signing a landmark peace deal to end years of unrest after pro-government militia leaders agreed to evacuate a flashpoint town and the government dropped arrest warrants for several rebels.

Al-Qaeda's North Africa arm has claimed responsibility for two attacks against the United Nation's MINUSMA peacekeeping mission in Mali this week, the Mauritanian Al-Akhbar news agency reported May 31. 

Militants opened fire on two Bangladeshi peacekeepers in Mali's Bamako on May 25, killing one, the second attack within days in the capital of what is considered the most dangerous UN mission in the world.

BELGRADE - Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali stated Thursday at the opening of the Capital Summit 2015 that direct networking of capitals becomes increasingly important for communication, cooperation and economic integration of countries.

BELGRADE - A contract on the Belgrade Waterfront project will be signed with the Arab partner on Sunday, Mayor Sinisa Mali said on Thursday.

At a panel titled "City Infrastructure and Urban Development" held as part of the Capital Summit 2015, Mali said that this project is worth EUR 3.5 billion.

Belgrade to host summit of 13 capitals

BELGRADE -- Belgrade is set to host a summit of mayors of 13 Central and South East Europe capital cities on April 23.

Mayor Sinisa Mali sees the event as an opportunity to strengthen cooperation, promote investment and put Belgrade back on the map of organizers of important events, Tanjug reported.

A Dutch UN helicopter crashed on Tuesday in northern Mali near the city of Gao, killing two people.

The cause of the crash remains unclear and so far there have been comments neither from the Dutch defence ministry nor from the UN peacekeeping mission, the BBC reports.

A peacekeeper and two children died on March 8 as militants shelled a UN base in northern Mali, heightening security fears as police hunted jihadists who launched a deadly Bamako nightclub assault.
      
The UN's MINUSMA force said more than 30 rockets were fired at its barracks in the rebel stronghold of Kidal from 5:40 am (0540 GMT).
      

Police in Mali March 8 hunted for the killers of two Europeans and three Malians in a jihadist attack on a nightclub, as a deadly assault on a UN barracks in the north heightened security concerns.