Sources: AP
Thirty-one people are killed and ten more injured after a bus en route from Mali to Burkina Faso crashes on a road in Koumantou. 2024-02-27
Tuareg rebels take control of the town of Bamba, Gao Region, Mali, claiming over 80 soldiers have been killed. 2023-10-1
Russia vetoes a United Nations Security Council resolution to extend targeted sanctions on Mali for one year and maintain a team of UN rapporteurs investigating abuses. 2023-08-30
The Islamic State in the Greater Sahara encircles the strategic town of Ménaka in Ménaka Region, Mali. 2023-04-14
The French foreign ministry announces the temporary suspension of development aid to Mali, citing the controversial relationship between the Assimi Goïta-led military junta and Russia's Wagner Group in the war. 2022-11-17
After killing hundreds of civilians and forcing thousands to flee, the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara is reported to have captured the town of Ansongo in eastern Mali. 2022-10-17
A French soldier is killed in a mortar attack on a military camp in Gao, northern Mali. 2022-01-23
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
Ten gunmen storm the five-star Radisson Blu Hotel in the Malian capital Bamako, taking 170 hostages with at least 27 people killed. The grenade-toting assailants free captives who are able to recite the Quran. The hotel is "often used" by Air France staff. 2015-11-20
2012 Northern Mali conflict: West African nations agree to send a 3,300-strong force to northern Mali to regain area controlled by Islamist insurgent groups. 2012-11-11