Tag: Bamako

Bamako Rips Up Algiers Accord, Dealing another Hard Blow to Algerian Diplomacy

January 26, 2024

Mali rulers have axed the 2015 Algiers Agreement signed by the various warring parties in the West African country, dealing another hard blow to the ... Read More

Algeria-Mali Crisis: Algerian Regime Suffers another Humiliating Setback at NAM Summit

January 22, 2024

Relations between Algiers and Bamako are still strained over Algeria’s continuous “unfriendly acts” and “blatant interference” in Mali’s internal affairs. Diplomatic row between the two ... Read More

Mali: UN peacekeeping mission officially ends its decade-long deployment

December 12, 2023

The United Nations mission in Mali, known as MINUSMA, officially ended a 10-year deployment in the West African country on Monday (11 December), its spokesperson ... Read More

Wagner Group reportedly makes $10m a month from terror in Mali as Kremlin plunders African gold — experts

November 28, 2023

Mercenaries from the Wagner Group are reportedly making $10 million per month through their involvement in the ongoing conflict in Mali as it exchanges African ... Read More

Mali’s Yara Oil in talks with IFC for €20.7m loan

August 28, 2023

Mali’s leading energy supplier and distributor “Yara Oil” is in advanced talks with the World Bank’s private sector financer, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), for ... Read More

Putin, Mali’s Goita discuss Niger crisis amid Western fears of growing Russian influence in Sahel

August 16, 2023

Mali’s military leader and interim president, Assimi Goita, had a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday about the escalating situation in Niger, ... Read More

Mali accuses UN of ‘espionage’, calls for pullout of UN peacekeepers

June 22, 2023

Mali's ruling junta has asked prosecutors to probe the UN peacekeeping mission MINUSMA for "espionage" just days after the government in Bamako called on the ... Read More

Grenade explosion in Mali kills five people including two Russians

May 11, 2023

A grenade explosion killed Tuesday two Russian instructors, two Malian soldiers as well as a civilian in the city of Segou, central Mali, reports say. ... Read More

Mali: five people killed in rare attack near capital Bamako

January 5, 2023

Armed men Monday (2 January) attacked a civil defense post in a small southwest town in Mali in what was a rare attack near the ... Read More

Russia will send fertilizers, wheat, petroleum products worth $100m to Mali

November 5, 2022

Mali announced Wednesday Russia is set to send 60,000 tons of oil, 25,000 tons of wheat and 35,000 tons of fertilizers worth $100 million through ... Read More