Soumaila Cisse, the runner-up in a 2018 presidential election, was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen on March 25 in Mali’s restive Timbuktu region. Recommended Stories ...

BAMAKO, Mali — Soumaila Cissé, Mali’s main opposition leader who was held hostage for six months earlier this year by jihadis and was considered a leading contender in the 2022 presidential ...

Soumaila Cisse, one of Mali’s most prominent opposition politicians who was abducted by Islamist insurgents while campaigning for elections this year, has died. He was 71.

Soumaila Cisse, Mali’s main opposition leader who was held hostage for six months earlier this year by an armed group and was considered a leading contender in the 2022 presidential election, ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s opposition leader Soumaila Cisse, who was held hostage for six months earlier this year by jihadists and was considered a leading contender in 2022 elections, has ...

Soumaila Cissé - seen here in a protester's picture - was voted into parliament days after he was kidnapped. West African presidents have demanded the release of one of Mali's opposition leaders, ...

Malian politician Soumaila Cisse's captors kept him constantly on the move in the inhospitable desert, he told French television, describing his six months with al-Qaida-linked militants as ...

Mali heads to the polls Sunday for a presidential election that many hope will mark the beginning of the end to more than 18 months of crisis. A lot has gone wrong since January 2012. There was a ...

Mali's opposition leader Soumaila Cisse, who was held hostage for six months earlier this year by jihadists and was considered a leading contender in 2022 elections, has died in Paris, his family ...

Soumaila Cissé - seen here in a protester's picture - was voted into parliament days after he was kidnapped West African presidents have demanded the release of one of Mali's opposition leaders ...