WASHINGTON, DC, 27 May 2021 – The United States has halted security assistance to Mali following the ouster of the country’s interim leaders in a second coup in under nine months. “We are now suspending all security assistance that benefits the Malian...
BAMAKO, 27 May 2021 – The leader of the former junta in Mali, Col Assimi Goïta, has declared himself the country’s transitional president. Soldiers under his command arrested, detained, and stipped the country’s interim president, Bah Ndaw, and Moctar...
BAMAKO, 26 May 2021 – Mali’s interim President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane have officially resigned, according to the unknown leaders of a new junta. The two were arrested and have been detained since Sunday at a military base just outside the...
BAMAKO, 25 May 2021 – The United Nations has demanded the immediate release of President Bah Ndaw and the prime minister, with the two detained by soldiers at a military base. The call for unconditional release came from the United Nations resident mission in...
BAMAKO, 7 May 2021 – Nonuplets born to a Malian woman will need to spend “two to three months” in incubators, health officials have told reporters. The mother, Halima Cisse, 25, and her nonuplets – five girls and four boys – are doing well, according...
BAMAKO, 5 May 2021 – Islamist jihadists in Mali have released a video confirming that a French journalist they abducted last month is alive. Olivier Dubois appeals to French authorities in the short video clip to do all they can to set him free. He works for several...
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