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Six UN Peace Keepers were injured Saturday by the explosion of an improvised explosive device (IED), the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), announced on Twitter. The mission did not provide details on the attack and the nationalities of the forces but indicated that the incidents illustrate the pervasive threat of IEDs […]
An explosion killed at least eleven people and injured 53 on a bus in central Mali on Thursday (13 October), a region regularly rocked by jihadist violence, according to police and local sources. The blast occurred when the bus hit an explosive device and all the victims of the explosion were civilians, as per reports. […]
Nigeriens authorities have suspended transit of oil products to neighboring Mali as diplomatic relations between two countries further go downward. “I have the honor to inform you of the suspension of transit authorizations for petroleum products in Mali not intended for the MINUSMA granted to users,” a circular signed by the Director General of Customs […]
Mali’s military-appointed prime minister has lashed out at the former colonial ruler France and the United Nations as he praised the “exemplary” cooperation with Russia. Addressing the 77th session of the UN General Assembly (24 September), Abdoulaye Maiga slammed what he called “unilateral decision” by Paris to relocate the remaining French troops to neighbouring Niger […]
Ivory Coast on Wednesday (14 September) slammed Mali for “blackmailing” over 46 Ivorian troops who have been detained by Bamako and urged leaders of the regional bloc ECOWAS to discuss the crisis “as soon as possible”. Mali’s ruling junta last week tied the troops’ release to the extradition of Malians living in Ivory Coast — […]
Côte d’Ivoire authorities have accused their Malian counterparts of hostage-taking after Malian leader colonel Assimi Goita tied the release of Ivorian soldiers to the handover of people who have been on its territory since 2013 and who are wanted in Mali. “No release of Ivorian soldiers without extradition of Malian politicians in return,” Goita said […]
At least 50 civilians, including a woman and a child, were killed and more than 500 arrested during a military operation conducted by Mali’s army and “foreign troops” on 19 April, the United Nations’s peacekeeping mission MINUSMA said in a report published on Wednesday (31 August). The alleged massacre took place on market day in […]
The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) announced last week that it had opened an investigation into “allegations of serious human rights violations” during an anti-terrorist operation launched by Malian armed forces in the Moura region in central Mali. MINUSMA said in a statement that it has formally opened an investigation since […]
The Barkhane anti-jihadist force began the final phase of the transfer of the Kidal base in northern Mali to the United Nations force (MINUSMA) and the Malian army on Tuesday, the French general staff said. “The last logistical convoy left for Gao this morning at 5 a.m. A detachment of Barkhane will remain on site […]
Mauritanian El-Ghassim Wane was appointed by the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres as the new UN envoy for Mali. He will replace Chad’s Mahamat Saleh Annadif as head of MINUSMA, the UN largest peacekeeping force of nearly 14,500 troops in Mali. A lawyer by training, El-Ghassim Wane studied in Senegal and France before rising through […]