Sources: BBC
The Al-Qaeda-linked Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin and Tuareg Azawad Liberation Front rebels seize the northern Mali town of Anéfis. 2026-07-6
Twenty-five civilians are killed after an ambush by Islamic State gunmen against a convoy of buses in Gao, Mali. 2025-02-7
Islamist insurgents kill 132 civilians over the weekend in a series of attacks on three villages in the Bankass Cercle of Mali's Mopti Region, including Segue. 2022-06-20
The French Ministry of Armed Forces suspends combined operations between the French and Malian Armed Forces under Operation Barkhane following the second coup d'état in Mali within nine months. 2021-06-3
Malian opposition leader Soumaïla Cissé and six others are taken hostage by jihadists in the northern Tombouctou Region. Cissé's bodyguard was killed and two others injured in the ambush. 2020-03-26
Two French journalists working for RFI are kidnapped and killed in the town of Kidal in northern Mali. 2013-11-2
Voters in Mali go to the polls for the second round of a presidential election. 2013-08-11
Mali lifts a state of emergency ahead of a presidential election. 2013-07-6
Suspected Islamic militants take over a BP facility in In Aménas, Algeria, killing at least 2 workers and taking up to 40 others hostage, including 13 Norwegians, a number of Americans, as well as nationals from Ireland, Japan, France and the United Kingdom. A previously unknown group allied to al-Qaeda's regional branch says the attack is in revenge for Algeria's support of the French operation against Islamic rebels in Mali. 2013-01-16
The African Union suspends Mali's membership following a coup earlier in the week. 2012-03-23