After losing 0-1 against Tunisia at their home ground of the Stade du 26 mars de Bamako in the qualifying play-off for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, Mali are far from being eliminated, assured their players in separate media interviews. “We are disappointed with the result but it’s only the first leg,” said captain […]
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Sévaré — France and allied European countries are withdrawing their anti-jihadist forces from Mali after diplomatic relations broke down with the ruling junta, which has reportedly welcomed in hundreds of mercenaries from the Russian Wagner Group. The diplomatic crisis has overshadowed a worsening humanitarian emergency that has seen severe hunger hit the highest level since […]
Mali’s former prime minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga died on Monday. He was 67. Maiga, who served as premier between 2017 and 2019, was undergoing treatment at a clinic in Bamako. He was transferred to the hospital in December after he was taken ill at the prison in Bamako where he had been held since August […]
Bamako, Mali — Authorities in Mali have taken Radio France Internationale and France 24 television off the air, accusing the media outlets of broadcasting false allegations against the Malian army. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says the suspension, which followed months of rising tensions between Mali and France, has serious implications for foreign and […]
Niamey, March 14, 2022 : Niger is hosting from March 14 to 18, a series of training sessions led by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). These sessions, which follow on from those that took place in Bamako, focus on […]
Petaka, January 16, 2022 At about 5 p.m. on January 16, armed Islamist fighters executed four ethnic Dogon men they had forcibly removed from a convoy of traders returning from the market in the town of Douentza in Mopti region. Two witnesses said the fighters targeted the men because of their alleged support of a […]
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Mali: New Wave of Executions of Civilians
Army, Armed Islamists Should End Atrocities; Independent Inquiries Urgently Needed (Nairobi, March 15, 2022) – The Malian army and armed Islamist groups have allegedly killed at least 107 civilians in central and southwestern Mali since December 2021, Human Rights Watch said today. The victims, most allegedly summarily executed, include traders, village chiefs, religious leaders, and […]
A video has emerged of the French journalist Olivier Dubois who has been held hostage since April 2021. Dubois, 47, was seized while on an assignment in Gao in northern Mali by the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims, During the 69-second clip, Dubois appears alone on the screen, wearing a blue shawl […]
Following the past weekend’s circulation of a new undated video of Olivier Dubois, a French journalist held hostage in Mali for the past 11 months, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the French and Malian authorities to redouble efforts to obtain his release. A reassuring proof of life, the video’s appearance on social media came […]
Eight years have passed since the French military launched its operations in Mali at the request of Mali’s then interim government. Mali, at the time, was experiencing a political and humanitarian crisis that brought to the fore prolonged grievances of parts of the northern populations. The mission’s immediate goal was to stop separatist and criminal […]
<i>Of that figure, 108 were rescued in 2020 and 18 persons in 2021 respectively and another 500 have been convicted so far by NAPTIP.</sub> The <a target=”_blank” href=”https://twitter.com/naptipnigeria”>National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons</a> (NAPTIP) says it has rescued 523 Nigerians trafficked to Mali between 2003 and 2021. A senior intelligence officer at […]
Google, working with historians from West Africa, has been working to digitize contemporary art, cultural and historic sites about Mali, and the digital library went live on Google Art & Culture (GAC) today, making these items available for exploration by the world. Known as Mali Magic, the project has over 40,000 assets of digitized manuscript […]
Monrovia — Liberia is on the verge on losing the flights of the only airliner making daily trips to the country due to the ongoing crisis in Mali and a trip to France by the Minister of Transport, Mr. Samuel Wlue, could not salvage the situation. Air France will reportedly make its last trip to […]
Bamako — Videos of an alleged massacre in central Mali are circulating on social media, with locals saying those killed were ethnic Fulani men whom security forces arrested in late February and early March. Mali’s military this week denied any responsibility for the killings; however, VOA spoke to a man who said he witnessed troops […]
Bamako, Mali — The French army says it has killed one of the leaders of al-Qaida in Mali. The news comes as French forces are preparing to withdraw from the country. The French army said in a press release Monday that Algerian Yahia Djouadi, one of the leaders of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, was […]
After Paris announced the withdrawal of its troops from Mali on February 17, 2022, along with the reorganisation of its military force Barkhane, and of the European Force “Takuba”, the country has now decided to freeze its civil cooperation in Mali. This new move applies particularly to the withdrawal of French aid workers present in […]
The girls, one of them having a three-year-old boy and two pregnant, were released with the support of Action Against Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants in Nigeria (A-TIPSOM). The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) in collaboration with the Network Against Child Trafficking, Abuse and Labour (NACTAL) have secured […]
French President Emmanuel Macron said Frances military withdrawal from Mali does not mean the mission was a failure. The anti-insurgency operation will continue, but based in other countries. African leaders, meanwhile, warn that they cannot fight the insurgency on their own. And the UN says the withdrawal is bound to have an effect on its […]