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Twenty-five civilians are killed after an ambush by Islamic State gunmen against a convoy of buses in Gao, Mali.
2025-02-7

MINUSMA officially departs Mali after ten years of peacekeeping in the country. The two remaining MINUSMA bases in Gao and Timbuktu are expected to end operations before MINUSMA's mandate expires on December 31.
2023-12-11

Tuareg rebels from Platform claim control over a camp in Kidal, northern Mali, following the evacuation of MINUSMA troops.
2023-10-31

Malian Air Force jets bomb the town of Anefif, attempting to strike Coordination of Azawad Movements troops, but miss.
2023-08-28

A Malian Air Force attack helicopter crashes into a residential area of Bamako while returning from operations against jihadists near the Mauritanian border. Three people on board are killed and six on ground injured.
2023-04-22

France formally ends its military intervention in Mali after withdrawing its last remaining troops from a military base in Gao. The base was handed over to Malian Armed Forces before the French forces crossed into neighbouring Niger.
2022-08-15

A French soldier is killed in a mortar attack on a military camp in Gao, northern Mali.
2022-01-23

At least 33 soldiers are killed and 14 others are wounded in an attack on a military post in Gao.
2021-03-17

Rocket attacks are carried out in three northern Malian cities – Gao, Kidal and Ménaka – against French military bases. No one is killed or injured. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claims responsibility for the attacks.
2020-11-30