Sources: BBC
The German defence ministry suspends its military's aerial reconnaissance and transport operations in Mali after the government of Mali denied the departure of one of their flights. 2022-08-12
The United States cuts off Ethiopia, Guinea and Mali from the African Growth and Opportunity Act trade preference program citing their human rights abuses and anti-democratic actions. 2022-01-2
A Colombian Roman Catholic nun who had been kidnapped in Mali near the border with Burkina Faso in 2017 by the Macina Liberation Front is freed. The nun is photographed with Malian President Assimi Goïta as the government refuses to state if any ransom was paid for her release. 2021-10-9
Ansar Dine, a militant Islamist group linked to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claims responsibility for yesterday's attack on a United Nations base in Kidal, northern Mali, that killed six UN peacekeepers, all from neighboring Guinea. 2016-02-13
A Dutch military helicopter serving as part of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali crashes near Gao, killing two people. 2015-03-17
Mali lifts a state of emergency ahead of a presidential election. 2013-07-6
13 Chadian soldiers and 65 Islamist insurgents are killed in heavy fighting in a remote part of northern Mali. 2013-02-22
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
African troops are to be deployed in Mali to fight alongside French and Malian soldiers within a week. 2013-01-15