[UN News] The Secretary-General strongly condemned on Sunday, an attack in Kidal, a city in northern Mali, against a convoy of UN peacekeepers that claimed the life of a blue helmet.

[RFI] The French military on Wednesday said it had captured a top-ranking member of the Sahel affiliate of the Islamic State group.

[UN News] Long-term uncertainty related to the length of the transition period in Mali has made it even more difficult to achieve progress on implementing the 2015 peace agreement, the top UN official in the country told the Security Council on Monda...

[DW] Mali's northeast is seeing heavy fighting as Mali's army, together with pro-government militias, battle insurgents. Hundreds of civilians have been killed and tens of thousands are displaced.

[State Department] The United States acknowledges the announcement by Mali's transition government of a 24-month transition timetable starting in March 2022. We urge the Malian transition government to make sustained, tangible action toward holding e...

[RFI] Mali's military rulers have announced that they would delay until March 2024 a return to civilian rule following double coups that have been denounced by countries in the region and foreign powers.

[DW] Civilian rule will return to Mail in 2024 at the earliest, according to a transition timeline proposed by the ruling military.

[RFI] West African leaders meeting in Accra have decided to uphold sanctions against Mali, along with the suspension of Burkina Faso and Guinea from the bloc. The measures could be lifted if the military rulers in all three countries speed up plans f...

[VOA] Bamako -- Mali's military junta will take 24 months from March 2022 to restore civilian rule after an August 2020 coup, its spokesman said on Monday, the latest move in negotiations with regional bloc ECOWAS to lift sanctions crippling the econ...

[GhanaToday] The Economic Community of West African States last Saturday upheld the sanctions imposed on the three junta-ruled nations-- Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso.

[DW] The UN says it is the sixth time a peacekeeping convoy has been targeted in less than a month. The West African country has been gripped by a jihadist insurgency for the past decade.

[UN News] Two Egyptian peacekeepers serving with the UN Mission in Mali, MINUSMA, were killed on Friday - the second fatal attack this week on a peacekeeping convoy in the West African country.

[ICRC] Bamako/Nairobi/Geneva, 2 June 2022--The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is shocked and saddened by the violent deaths of two Red Cross aid workers who were killed yesterday, during an attack by armed men in the Kayes region o...

[New Times] Nigeria's female basketball team, D'Tigress, has been replaced with Mali for the upcoming FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup 2022 that will take place in Belgrade, Serbia.

[UN News] Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned a deadly attack on Wednesday against a UN Peacekeeping logistics convoy near the town of Kidal in northern Mali.

[This Day] The world basketball governing body, FIBA, yesterday replaced Nigeria's senior women's basketball team, D'Tigress, with Mali in the rooster for the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup scheduled to hold in Sydney, Australia in September.

[RFI] A United Nations report out on Monday noted a fourfold rise in civilian deaths and human rights abuses in late 2021 by all actors in the conflict, including jihadists, militias, self-defence groups, foreign military and Malian soldiers.

[Daily Trust] The Oyo State Police Command has arrested three people in connection with alleged human trafficking from Nigeria to Mali, Burkina Faso and other African countries.

[New Frame] The Malian superstar's new album Timbuktu is a thrilling fusion of folk music from West Africa and the United States.

[VOA] Bamako, Mali -- Experts say Mali's struggle against Islamist militants is putting its World Heritage sites at risk. For the first time in modern history, officials say, the annual replastering of the mud mosque in the town of Djenné in central...

[The Conversation Africa] The threat of violent extremism across West Africa has been on the rise in recent times.

[DW] Germany's parliament decided how it will engage militarily with the West African country, which witnessed another coup last year.

[DW] An alleged coup attempt in Mali sheds light on the tensions facing the interim government of Colonel Assimi Goita. Yet, despite sanctions and isolation, Malians still back the military.

[UN News] Mali's decision on 15 May to withdraw from the G5-Sahel group and its Joint Force is "unfortunate" and "regrettable", a senior United Nations official told the Security Council on Wednesday, as she urged countries in the region to redouble ...

[New Frame] The fractious relationship between the two countries has reached a new low with France being ordered to leave immediately. This has many implications for the strife-torn region.

[The New Humanitarian] Sévaré, Mali -- 'I knew the conflict would affect me again if I did nothing.'