Browsing: Mali

Four police officers were wounded in a suspected terrorist attack on a minister’s convoy in southern Mali on Friday.  The attack occurred on Thursday afternoon near…

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the African Union (AU) to take immediate action against the Mali junta’s growing political repression, highlighting a surge in arrests…

Mali’s military pledged on Saturday to track down the terrorists responsible for an attack on a large convoy heading to a gold mine that left numerous…

A suspected terrorist attack on a convoy escorted by the Malian army and Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has left at least 32 people dead in northern…

Authorities reported on Thursday that a landslip at a gold mine in southern Mali had killed about ten people and left numerous more missing, the majority…

Earlier this month, soldiers descended by helicopter into a sprawling mining complex in western Mali, seizing three tonnes of gold—an operation ordered by the country’s military…

Eleven political parties in Mali on Wednesday urged the ruling junta to confirm a timetable for elections and a return to civilian rule, in a rare…

Malians are celebrating the national day of “regained sovereignty”, an annual celebration instituted by the ruling junta since its coup d’état on 14 January 2022. Minister…

Mali’s ruling junta has started seizing gold reserves from the Loulo-Gounkoto mine, operated by Canadian company Barrick Gold, according to a security source and an internal…

The head of Mali’s ruling junta met on Saturday with Sudan’s de facto leader, both facing military challenges in their respective countries. Mali’s General Assimi Goïta…