[ISS] Tax breaks in Mali and weak import procedures in the UAE fuel the multi-billion dollar illicit trade.

[RFI] Mali's army-led government on Sunday urged French President Emmanuel Macron to abandon his "neocolonial and patronising" attitude as relations break down further between Paris and Bamako.

[RFI] The United States has ordered non-emergency personnel and their families to leave Mali due to a heightened risk of terrorist attacks, the State Department has announced.

[DW] 15 soldiers and three civilians were killed in two coordinated attacks by Islamists in southwest Mali on Wednesday, the army said.

[RFI] The UN's peacekeeping mission in Mali has acknowledged there were "dysfunctions" that preceded a row with the Malian authorities sparked by the arrival of Ivorian troops at Bamako airport this month.

[DW] Militants linked to al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for a deadly attack against the country's main military base outside the capital, Bamako.

[DW] Mali's military government said it repelled an attack on Friday against the country's main military base outside the capital, Bamako.

[VOA] Bamako, Mali -- Heavy gunfire and explosions were heard early Friday at a military base outside the capital of Mali that was the site of past mutinies and coups.

[RFI] Mali is expelling the spokesman of the UN's peacekeeping force in the country over social media posts concerning the presence of Ivorian troops. This comes amid mounting friction between Mali's ruling military and international partners support...

[DW] Malian authorities on Wednesday ordered the Olivier Salgado, the spokesman of the United Nations peacekeeping mission, MINUSMA, to leave the country within 72 hours.

[VOA] Bamako, Mali -- Gunmen have attacked a checkpoint just 70 kilometers from Bamako, Mali's capital, leaving six dead, in a sign of increasing insecurity in Mali as the French army withdraws from the country and tensions rise between the U.N. and ...

[DW] Mali's decision on Thursday to suspend troop rotations by the United Nations' peacekeeping mission (MINUSMA) has raised questions about how it wants to detect the terms of engagement -- something some analysts fear could backfire.

[DW] The Malian government on Thursday said it would suspend troop rotations by the UN peacekeeping mission, MINUSMA.

[VOA] Bamako, Mali -- Mali's military government has suspended the rotation of U.N. military and police forces following the renewal late last month of the mandate of the U.N. mission there.

[DW] Ivory Coast's National Security Council on Tuesday called on the Malian authorities to immediately release 49 Ivorian soldiers detained in Mali.

[RFI] Malian authorities have arrested 49 soldiers from Cote d'Ivoire, describing them as mercenaries who were planning to stop the protection and reform of the country.

[The Point] The 61st Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) that was held on 3 July 2022 in Accra, Republic of Ghana, commends its Ministerial Committee in charge o...

[UN News] UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday echoed strong condemnation from the Security Council and elsewhere, of the killing of two more UN peacekeepers in northern Mali.

[VOA] At least two U.N. peacekeepers from Egypt are dead and more are wounded after their convoy hit an improvised explosive device Tuesday, the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) said Tuesday.

[African Arguments] Despite the renewal of the UN mission, the UN Secretary-General has suggested a new force may be required to end the spiral of instability.

[DW] Aminata Toure became the first Black member of a state government when she was sworn in as the social affairs, youth, family, seniors, integration and equality minister in Germany's northernmost state of Schleswig-Holstein in June.

[VOA] African leaders have lifted economic sanctions on Mali.

[DW] Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday lifted economic and financial sanctions imposed on Mali, after its military rulers agreed to return to civilian rule by March 2024 and published a new electoral law.

[State Department] The United States was deeply saddened to learn of the violence in the Bandiagara and Gao regions of Mali this past weekend, resulting in the deaths of more than 100 civilians. This development comes at a time when ongoing violence ...