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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.
On 20 November 2015, Islamist militants took 170 hostages and killed 20 of them in a mass shooting at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, the capital city of Mali. [5] [6] [7] The siege was ended when Malian special forces, backed by U.S. and French personnel, launched an assault on the hotel to recover the surviving hostages.
The attacks began in the early morning of 17 September 2024 at around 05:00, [5] when gunmen attacked several locations across Bamako including the Banankabougou neighbourhood, [6] the Faladie military police school [7] housing elite units of the Malian gendarmerie [8] in the southeast of Bamako, and the nearby military airport, [6] which the JNIM claimed to have fully taken. [1]
The Algiers Accords, officially referred to as the Accord for Peace and Reconciliation in Mali, is a 2015 agreement to end the Mali War. The agreement was signed on May 15 and June 20, 2015, in Bamako , following negotiations in Algiers between the Republic of Mali and Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA).
After seizing power in 2020, Mali's junta pledged to scrutinise its mining sector so the state would benefit more from gold prices running at all-time highs. Some companies, like B2Gold, reached ...
Islamist militants in Mali began a blockade of Timbuktu by cutting road access in August and then shut off river and air routes in an offensive that has put the city once again on the frontline of ...
Mali is a landlocked country in West Africa, located southwest of Algeria. It lies between latitudes 10° and 25°N, and longitudes 13°W and 5°E. Mali borders Algeria to the north-northeast, Niger to the east, Burkina Faso to the south-east, Ivory Coast to the south, Guinea to the south-west, and Senegal to the west and Mauritania to the ...
Its headquarters were in the Malian capital city, Bamako. Military intelligence was evaluated by the Force Headquarters U2-Intelligence Section. [14]The force was led by Danish Major General Michael Lollesgaard in 2015 and 2016, Belgian Major General Jean-Paul Deconinck until 2 October 2018, after which he was succeeded by Lieutenant General Dennis Gyllensporre of Sweden.