Sources: AFP via BDlive CNN
Malian interim president Assimi Goïta signs a decree dissolving all political parties and organizations and bans them from holding meetings following ongoing pro-democracy protests in the capital city Bamako. 2025-05-13
JNIM gunmen open fire on a military camp in Bamako, Mali, killing a number of soldiers. The perpetrators tried to infiltrate the camp, and also opened fire on the Modibo Keita International Airport. At least 15 suspects are arrested. 2024-09-17
German Catholic priest Hans-Joachim Lohre, who disappeared in Bamako, Mali, in November 2022 and was presumed kidnapped, is released and returns to Germany. 2023-11-26
The Macina Liberation Front launches an attack on Mali's largest military base in Bamako. One soldier and six of the attackers are killed. 2022-07-22
A partially occupied building under construction collapses, killing 15 people in Bamako, Mali. 2019-09-1
Gunmen storm a popular tourist resort near the Malian capital, Bamako. At least two people are reportedly killed. Malian troops and France's Operation Barkhane counter-terrorist force are at the site. 2017-06-18
President-elect Adama Barrow travels to the Malian capital of Bamako to meet with world leaders after yesterday's failed attempts at persuading incumbent president Yahya Jammeh to step down at the end of his term. 2017-01-14
Mali declares a 10-day state of emergency effective at midnight, following a series of threats from unnamed jihadist groups, and last month's siege at a Bamako hotel, where 20 people were killed. 2015-12-22
Mali confirms that it has a new case of Ebola virus, this time in the capital Bamako. 2014-11-11
Rebelling government troops in Mali storm the state broadcaster in the capital Bamako. 2012-03-21