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Mali, [ c ] officially the Republic of Mali, [ d ] is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over 1,241,238 square kilometres (479,245 sq mi). [ 9 ] The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east by Niger, to the northwest by Mauritania, to the south by Burkina Faso and ...
The attacks began in the early morning of 17 September 2024 at around 05:00, [6] when gunmen attacked several locations across the city including the Banankabougou neighbourhood, [3] the Faladie military police school [7] housing elite units of the Malian gendarmerie [8] in the southeast of Bamako, and the nearby military airport, [3] which the JNIM claimed to have fully taken. [1]
Mali is located in Africa. The history of the territory of modern Mali may be divided into: Pre-Imperial Mali, before the 13th century. The history of the eponymous Mali Empire and of the Songhai Empire during the 13th to 16th centuries. The borders of Mali are those of French Sudan, drawn in 1891. They are artificial, and unite parts of the ...
The Mali Empire (Manding: Mandé[ 3 ] or Manden Duguba; [ 4 ][ 5 ] Arabic: مالي, romanized:Mālī) was an empire in West Africa from c. 1226 to 1670. The empire was founded by Sundiata Keita (c.1214 – c. 1255) and became renowned for the wealth of its rulers, especially Mansa Musa (Musa Keita). At its peak, Mali was the largest empire in ...
Location of Mali. Mali is a landlocked nation in West Africa, located southwest of Algeria, extending south-west from the southern Sahara Desert through the Sahel to the Sudanian savanna zone. Mali's size is 1,240,192 square kilometers. Desert or semi-desert covers about 65 percent of Mali's total area (1,240,192 square kilometers).
The history of the Mali Empire begins when the first Mande people entered the Manding region during the period of the Ghana Empire. After its fall, the various tribes established independent chiefdoms. In the 12th century, these were briefly conquered by the Sosso Empire under Soumaoro Kante. He was in turn defeated by a Mande coalition led by ...
Until the military coup of March 22, 2012 [1] [2] and a second military coup in December 2012 [3] the politics of Mali took place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Mali is head of state with a Presidentially appointed Prime Minister as the head of government, and of a multi-party system.
The Mali War[ c ] is an ongoing conflict that started in January 2012 between the northern and southern parts of Mali in Africa. On 16 January 2012, several insurgent groups began fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, which they called Azawad.