The Eagles of Mali started their Group E campaign in the 2022 FIFA World Qualifiers with a 1-0 win over Rwanda at Grand Stade d’Agadir in Morocco on Wednesday evening. They dominated the game which was moved to Morocco as Mali lacked approval of a home stadium. Mohamed Magassouba’s men dominated the game and created […]

A camp of the United Nations Integrated Stabilization Mission for Mali (MINUSMA) came under attack on Tuesday. The Special Representative of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Head of MINUSMA El-Ghassim Wane made this known. El-Ghassim Wane wrote on Twitter “I strongly condemn the attack on our forces in Aguelhok this morning. I applaud the bravery […]

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, has pledged the support of Nigeria for Mali’s candidate, Mrs Haidara Cisse Aichata, who is vying to become the President of the Pan-African Parliament.

Four United Nations peacekeepers were killed Friday when suspected jihadists staged a major attack on their camp in Aguelhok, northern Mali, the UN mission said. Four United Nations peacekeepers were killed Friday when suspected jihadists staged a major attack on their camp in Aguelhok, northern Mali, the UN mission said. The peacekeepers “bravely pushed back […]

A United Nations report released on Tuesday said a French air strike in central Mali in January killed 19 civilians, prompting a strong denial from France. The report comes after residents of the village of Bounti said a strike had targeted them during a wedding party on January 3. France’s military maintains that it struck […]

It also said it had “numerous reservations about the methodology” used in the investigation. – ‘Protected by law’ – At least 22 people died in the French strike, of whom 19 were civilians, according to the probe. No women or children were killed. “The group affected by the strike was overwhelmingly composed of civilians who […]

A court in Mali’s capital Bamako on Thursday began hearing a long-delayed case against former coup leader Amadou Sanogo, who is accused of killing 21 elite soldiers, AFP journalists said. A former army captain, Sanogo and several other plotters staged a military coup against President Amadou Toumani Toure in the Sahel state in 2012, after […]

The ECOWAS Parliament has pledged its support to the Malian people as the country embarks on transition to democratic rule. Speaker of the parliament Sidie Mohamed Tunis pledged the support of the sub-regional congress when he led a parliamentary mission to Mali as part of activities of the sub-regional lawmakers to support the West African […]

Eight soldiers were killed and five others injured in an attack on an army base in Bandiagara, in Mali’s central region of Mopti, the military confirmed on its website on Friday. Unidentified armed individuals attacked the base of Malian army and the gendarmerie squadron in Bandiagara at about 9:30 p.m. local time on Thursday, the […]

Two Malian soldiers were killed Tuesday in an ambush in a central region regularly hit by jihadist attacks, security sources and a local official said. The ambush targeted an army resupply mission in the Mopti region, one of the security sources said on condition of anonymity. A separate security source said another person was missing […]