Sources: BBC
United States president Donald Trump expands the country's existing travel ban by banning citizens of Burkina Faso, Mali, South Sudan, and Syria, as well as those holding passports issued by the Palestinian Authority, from entering the country. He also imposes partial restrictions on citizens from 15 other countries. 2025-12-17
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
Mali announces that it carried out joint airstrikes with Burkina Faso on insurgents in and around Tinzaouaten. The CSP-PSD says that a Burkinabé drone strike killed dozens of civilians. 2024-07-31
A court in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, sentences four Malian men to life imprisonment for inciting an Islamist mass shooting that killed 19 people and injured 33 others at a beach resort in Grand-Bassam in 2016. 2022-12-28
A knifeman wounds Malian President Assimi Goïta in the arm at a mosque in Bamako. The perpetrator is arrested, and the attack is described as an assassination attempt. 2021-07-20
At least 23 people are dead and 300 missing after attacks on three Fulani villages in central Mali. 2019-06-30
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb release Serge Lazarevic, a French hostage seized three years ago in Mali. 2014-12-9
Mali lifts a state of emergency ahead of a presidential election. 2013-07-6
A French pilot is killed in a helicopter raid in northern Mali, according to French Minister of Defence Jean-Yves Le Drian. 2013-01-12