Sources: AP
Mali accuses its former ally France of arming jihadist terrorist groups in order to destabilize the country. Malian Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop tells the United Nations that French aircraft are violating the country's airspace and dropping "arms and ammunition" to terrorist groups on the ground. France denies the accusations. 2022-08-18
Suicide bombers attack a French military base in Gao, Mali, where Estonian, French and Malian troops serve. Six Estonians and "around the same number" of French personnel are wounded in the attack. 2019-07-22
Mali's Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga and his entire cabinet resigns, being succeeded by Boubou Cisse. No reason is addressed. 2019-04-18
The International Criminal Court has ruled that Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi is liable for about € 2.7 million in personal damages for the destruction of Timbuktu's heritage sites, and that the victims (including Mali itself and the international community) be paid "individual, collective, and symbolic" reparations. The Trust Fund for Victims is to decide until 16 February 2018 how the amount will be paid (the Court has also recognized that the penniless al-Mahdi would be unable to pay). 2017-08-17
Mali returns two people France deported on the same planes they arrived on. 2016-12-30
A car bombing in the Malian town of Kidal kills two United Nations peacekeepers. 2013-12-14
The Malian army says it is investigating allegations that soldiers have carried out summary executions in the Islamist-controlled north of Mali. 2013-01-24
2012 Malian coup d'état: Coup leaders in Mali unveil a new constitution. 2012-03-28
At least thirty people are killed in a stampede at a Mali stadium following a sermon by a leading Muslim imam. 2011-02-21
Aid worker Alicia Gamez, captured in Mauritania in 2009 by a group affiliated with Al Qaeda and taken to Mali, is released. 2010-03-10