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In the central Mali province of Mopti, conflict has escalated since 2015 between agricultural communities like the Dogon and the Bambara, and the pastoral Fula (or Fulani) people. [ 68 ] [ 69 ] Historically, the two sides have fought over access to land and water, factors which have been exacerbated by climate change as the Fula move into new ...
Experts compare Mali's situation now to its position in 2012 when another Tuareg rebellion was overtaken by jihadists who captured Timbuktu and pressed south towards the capital Bamako.
Mali's army and Wagner mercenaries it has employed experienced a major battlefield defeat in July, suffering heavy losses at the hands of Tuareg rebels in the northern outpost of Tinzawaten.
What is today the nation of Mali was united first in the medieval period as the Mali Empire. While the current state does not include areas in the southwest, and is expanded far to the east and northeast, the dominant roles of the Mandé people is shared by the modern Mali, and the empire from which its name originates from.
September 8 – September 2023 Mali attacks: Four suicide bombers attack a Malian military base in Bamba, Gao Region, killing an unknown number of people. [8] September 16: The military governments of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso sign a mutual defence pact named the Alliance of Sahel States in case of internal rebellion or external military ...
Climate change has made maximum temperatures in Burkina Faso and Mali hotter by 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), the researchers said. Experts have warned of more scorching weather ahead.
19 January – At least 73 people die after an artisanal gold mine collapses in Kangaba. [1] [2]19 January – Mali, along with Niger and Burkina Faso, announce their withdrawal from ECOWAS, accusing it of abandoning "the ideals of its founding fathers and pan-Africanism" under foreign influence and imposing "inhumane" sanctions to overthrow their military regimes.
The attacks began in the early morning of 17 September 2024 at around 05:00, [7] when gunmen attacked several locations across Bamako including the Banankabougou neighbourhood, [4] the Faladie military police school [8] housing elite units of the Malian gendarmerie [9] in the southeast of Bamako, and the nearby military airport, [4] which the JNIM claimed to have fully taken. [2]