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Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger write to the United Nations Security Council to denounce Ukrainian support for rebel groups in the Sahel region of West Africa.
2024-08-21

Thirty-one people are killed and ten more injured after a bus en route from Mali to Burkina Faso crashes on a road in Koumantou.
2024-02-27

The Assimi Goïta-led military junta prohibits the operation of France-supported NGOs in Mali to reciprocate the French government's suspension of development aid for the West African country due to its involvement with Russia's Wagner Group in the war.
2022-11-21

The West African nations of the 15-member bloc ECOWAS suspend diplomatic relations with Mali and announce that they are closing their borders with and imposing economic sanctions on Mali in response to an "unacceptable delay" to the country's next general election.
2022-01-9

During his visit to West Africa, French President Emmanuel Macron says that French forces killed 33 Islamist militants in central Mali earlier that day.
2019-12-21

Voters in Mali go to the polls for the second round of a presidential election.
2013-08-11

The UK announces it will deploy 330 military personnel to Mali and other West African countries in support of French forces operating in the area.
2013-01-29

The first West African troops enter Mali. 100 soldiers from the Togolese military enter the country with Nigerian military due to enter shortly afterward.
2013-01-17

2012 Northern Mali conflict: West African nations agree to send a 3,300-strong force to northern Mali to regain area controlled by Islamist insurgent groups.
2012-11-11

At least 16 people are killed in a stampede at Djinguereber Mosque in Mali's northwestern city of Timbuktu.
2010-02-26