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