Sources: BBC
Malian Foreign Affairs minister Abdoulaye Diop says that Mali "may ask Russia for help" due to the country's security situation, with Diop also saying that "the very existence of the Malian state is under threat". 2021-11-11
Three Chinese nationals and two Mauritanians are abducted at gunpoint from a construction site in Kwala, Mali. 2021-07-17
Gunmen on motorbikes attack an ethnic Dogon village in Mopti Region, Mali, killing 32 villagers, according to local authorities. 2020-07-2
Canadian national Édith Blais and her Italian partner Luca Tacchetto are found alive in Mali after escaping from their captors. The pair were abducted in Burkina Faso on December 15, 2018. 2020-03-14
Thirteen civilians travelling from Burkina Faso are killed after their vehicle struck a landmine near the village of Boni in Mali's Mopti Region. 2018-01-25
Mali lifts a state of emergency ahead of a presidential election. 2013-07-6
France claims that it is "probable" that al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb chief Abdelhamid Abou Zeid was killed in Mali in late February. 2013-03-4
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
African troops are to be deployed in Mali to fight alongside French and Malian soldiers within a week. 2013-01-15