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Mali is one of several West African countries fighting an Islamist insurgency that took roots in Mali's arid north in 2012 and has since spread across the Sahel and more recently to the north of ...
BAMAKO (Reuters) -Mali's security situation remained unclear on Wednesday after insurgents attacked an elite police training academy and other strategic areas on Tuesday, killing trainees ...
(Reuters) - An elaborate attack by an Al Qaeda affiliate in Mali's capital this week killed some 70 people, diplomatic and security sources said on Thursday, while the government offered no ...
The attacks began in the early morning of 17 September 2024 at around 05:00, [6] when gunmen attacked several locations across the city including the Banankabougou neighbourhood, [3] the Faladie military police school [7] housing elite units of the Malian gendarmerie [8] in the southeast of Bamako, and the nearby military airport, [3] which the JNIM claimed to have fully taken. [1]
Assimi Goïta. The 2021 Malian coup d'état began on the night of 24 May 2021 when the Malian Army led by Vice President Assimi Goïta [4] captured President Bah N'daw, [5][6] Prime Minister Moctar Ouane and Minister of Defence Souleymane Doucouré. [7] Assimi Goïta, the head of the junta that led the 2020 Malian coup d'état, announced that N ...
Gunmen killed 26 people in an attack on a village in central Mali's insurgent-hit Mopti region on Sunday, a local official said on Monday. The attack targeted a village in the Circle of Bankass ...
Bamako. The Mali War[ c ] is an ongoing conflict that started in January 2012 between the northern and southern parts of Mali in Africa. On 16 January 2012, several insurgent groups began fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, which they called Azawad.
Gunmen killed at least 21 civilians in an attack on a village in central Mali's insurgency-hit Mopti region on Friday, two local sources said on Saturday. The unidentified assailants struck in the ...