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t. e. Parliamentary elections were scheduled to be held in Mali on 29 October 2023, [1] after originally being planned for 27 February 2022. [2] However, they were postponed by the military junta that took power in a 2021 coup .
September 7 – September 2023 Mali attacks. In Gourma-Rharous Cercle, jihadists fire rockets at a Comanav vessel on the Niger River. Islamist militants attack a military camp in northeast Mali. The military confirms the death toll of the combined incidents to be 63 in total, including 15 troops and 49 civilians. [7]
Tombouctou. and Bamba attacks. On September 7, 2023, at least 154 civilians and fifteen Malian soldiers were killed when Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) militants simultaneously attacked a Malian military camp at Bamba and the civilian boat Tombouctou on the Niger River near the village of Banikane, Gourma-Rharous.
September 18, 2024 at 7:43 AM. By Tiemoko Diallo, Portia Crowe and David Lewis. BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's security situation remained unclear on Wednesday after insurgents attacked an elite police ...
Following independence in 1960, Mali initially followed a socialist path and was aligned ideologically with the communist bloc. Mali's foreign policy orientation became increasingly pragmatic and pro-Western over time. Since the institution of a democratic form of government in 1992, Mali's relations with the West in general and the United ...
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Earlier, Mali's state television channel broadcast footage appearing to show roughly 20 prisoners. The men all had blindfolds on and their wrists tied. "The terrorists have been neutralised.
The Alliance of Sahel States (AES/ASS [4] [5] [6] [a]) is a confederation [9] formed between Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso.It originated as a mutual defense pact created on 16 September 2023 following the 2023 Nigerien crisis, in which the West African political bloc ECOWAS threatened to intervene militarily to restore civilian rule after a coup in Niger earlier that year.