Tag: Mali
Niger, Mali, B/Faso to move toward monetary alliance – Nigerien leader
Abandoning the eight-member West African monetary union and adopting a new currency would further isolate Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso,…
4th Malian military base falls to Tuareg rebels
The military base is the fourth taken in a series of attacks the rebel alliance, called the Coordination of Azawad…
Just In: Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali form military pact
The Niger junta, which took power in a military coup on July 26, has created a military alliance with neighbouring…
Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger discuss response to ECOWAS military threat
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have all been under military rule since coups in their respective countries and had therefore…
FIBA qualifier: Mali halts D’Tigers progress
Nigeria, who lost to Senegal in their opening game, looked set to bounce back from the defeat but unfortunately could…
Afuwape leads Nigeria’s D’Tigers in first-ever win at FIBA AfroCan
D’Tigers had lost all their matches after finishing 0-3 in the inaugural edition of the tournament in Mali in 2019.
Malian troops, foreign forces executed 500 people in village in 2022 – UN
Rights groups say it is the worst atrocity in a 10-year-old conflict between Islamist groups and the army in which…
3 UN peacekeepers killed in central Mali
In January, MINUSMA reported that it had lost four peacekeepers due to 18 attacks since Oct. 3, 2022, in the…
Mali expels top UN official Ngefa-Atondoko Andali
Mali accused Andali of subversive acts after selecting “impostors” as Mali’s civil society representatives for UN Security Council meetings.
Mali appoints spokesman Abdoulaye Maiga as interim PM
He will to act in place of Choguel Maiga, who is resting amid media reports he had been hospitalised.
Mali accuses France of arming Jihadists
In a letter to the head of the United Nations Security Council dated Monday, Mali's foreign affairs minister, Abdoulaye Diop,…
Mali: Goodluck Jonathan gets UN commendation
The ECOWAS leaders, among other decisions, passed the adoption of electoral law in Mali, marking the crossing of an important…
ECOWAS lifts sanctions on Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea gets ultimatum
But the ECOWAS leaders rejected a three-year transition proposed by coup leaders who seized power in Guinea in September.
Extremists kill over 100 civilians in Mali, UN Chief expresses shock
The secretary-general called on Mali’s military leadership to redouble their efforts to restore peace and stability across the country
Guinean soldier killed as peacekeepers bombed in Mali
The Guinean peacekeeper was killed by an improvised explosive device, which detonated during a UN Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA)…
France captures top IS militant, Albakaye in Mali
Albakaye was captured by Operation Barkhane forces between the night of June 11 and the early hours of June 12…
Guterres condemns attack on UN peacekeepers
He also sent his deepest condolences to the family of the deceased peacekeeper, and the people and Government of Jordan.
EU suspends military training in Mali
On Sunday, Mali's military junta said the country was pulling out of the G5 Sahel force, a multinational force in…
Mali announces exit from Sahel military alliance
Mali claims that it is being exploited by unnamed foreign powers. The exit comes at a time of significant political…
Boubeye Maiga Mali’s detained ex-prime minister dies in hospital
Maiga, 68, was detained in August over his suspected role in the purchase of a presidential plane during the rule…
Mali orders French troops leave immediately
A government spokesman announced on public television that the results of France’s nine-year military engagement in conflict-torn Mali were “not…
French military leaving Mali for Niger
Coups in Mali, Chad and Burkina Faso have weakened France's alliances in its former colonies, emboldened jihadists who control large…
France to close military bases in Mali for 6 months, says Macron
Paris said that Canada, France, and its allies in the European mission Takuba decided to begin coordinated withdrawal of troops…
Mali accuses France’s military of partitioning the country
Mali has accused France’s military of deliberately dividing the West African country and of committing espionage during its fight against…
German defence minister Lambrecht sceptical about Mali mission
Germany has some 1,200 troops deployed in Mali as part of a 9-year-old international counter-terrorism and peacekeeping mission in the…
Thousands take to streets of Bamako in anti-French protest
Thousands of anti-French protesters took to the streets of Mali's capital on Friday waving Russian flags and burning cardboard cut-outs…
Malians in massive anti-French protests, Russia hailed as new ally
The protesters burned cardboard cut-outs of French President Emmanuel Macron in celebration of the expulsion of the envoy in Bamako.
Jesus sends Equatorial Guinea to AFCON quarter-finals, as Mali crash
The Equatorial Guinean goalkeeper saved two penalties, one of which was Mali's last kick which would have kept them in…
Ousted Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita dies
Keita was overthrown on Aug. 18, 2020, by the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP) after months…
CAF dismisses Tunisia’s protest over Mali match
After examining the protest of Tunisia and all the match officials’ reports, the CAF Committee decided to dismiss the protest…