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King Mohammed VI has agreed to put the Sébéninkoro Polyclinic at the disposal of the Government of Mali to help the West African country fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The Moroccan sovereign’s decision, made at the request of the President of Mali Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, was announced Saturday by Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita during a phone […]
Malian voters went to the polls in sparse order on Sunday to elect their deputies in a high-stakes legislative session. No official turnout figures were available shortly after the polls stations closed, but findings by AFP correspondents and observers suggest that it will be low. The elections, postponed several times, should make it possible to […]
In an unprecedented first for a Malian politician of his rank, unidentified gunmen kidnapped the leading opposition figure Soumaila Cisse and his team on Wednesday, March 25 afternoon, his party said. The Union for the Republic and Democracy (URD) party sounded the alarm later on Wednesday after Cisse failed to turn up to an appointment […]
Despite the coronavirus risk, the long-delayed parliamentary elections – whose first round is planned for next Sunday March 29 – in Mali will go ahead. The announcement was made by Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, in a televised address, Wednesday. He reassured that a “scrupulous respect” of health measures will be observed. “The government will […]
A Canadian woman and an Italian man kidnapped in Burkina Faso in 2018 were picked up by UN forces and transferred over the weekend to Mali’s capital, Bamako. Canadian Edith Blais and Italian Luca Tacchetto, who went missing while traveling through Burkina Faso, are said to be in good health and high spirits. The UN […]
In Mali, Al Qaeda-linked militants have said they are ready to attend peace talks with Mali’s government, but on condition that it expels foreign troops from the war-torn West African nation. The terror group made its position known in a statement issued on Monday following a decision by Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita last […]
Three Irish soldiers were injured in a bomb attack on a multinational convoy of the UN peacekeepers in Mali, the German army announced on Wednesday. The Bundeswehr said the attack took place Tuesday afternoon against the German-led convoy in northern Mali, about 80 kilometers to the northeast of the city of Gao. The […]
The French Barkhane force has neutralized recently about fifty jihadists in central Mali, announced the French General Staff. Between February 9 and 17, Barkhane carried out several operations in central Mali around the town of Mopti, enabling the force to neutralize fifty jihadists, destroy around thirty motorcycles and two pickups, and seize weapons, phones and […]
At least twenty villagers were massacred in an attack in the Malian village of Ogossagou, in the center of the country, medical sources said Friday. The assault was carried out overnight by around thirty armed men, a few hours after the Malian army withdrew from the locality. Twenty people were killed in an attack overnight […]
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on Monday said his government is prepared to talk with jihadist groups in the hope of ending insurgency in the West African nation. “Why not try to contact those who we know are pulling the strings,” Mr. Keita said in a recording of the interview published by Radio France Internationale. […]