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African Union suspends Mali after second coup in nine months
In a statement, the AU warned that if the military did not hand back power to civilian transitional leaders, 'the Council will not hesitate to impose targeted sanctions and other punitive measures'.
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Ecowas suspends Mali over second coup in nine months
With the junta going back on its previous commitment to civilian political leaders, doubts have been raised about its other pledges, including a promise to hold elections in early 2022.
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Mali strongman Goita pledges to name new prime minister
On Monday, soldiers detained the leaders of a caretaker government tasked with steering Mali's return to civilian rule following a coup last August.
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Mali president and PM resign after arrest by military junta
President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane, tasked with steering the return to civilian rule after a coup last August, resigned in the presence of mediators visiting the military base where they were being held, said Baba Cisse, special advisor to junta boss Assimi Goita.
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Mediators to meet detained Malian leaders as pressure on army builds
The detention on Monday of President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane, tasked with steering the return to civilian rule after a coup last August, triggered widespread international condemnation and the threat of sanctions.
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Mali strongman ousts transitional leaders as France warns of sanctions
Assimi Goita, who headed a junta which seized power less than 10 months ago, said that transitional President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane had been stripped of their powers, and he promised elections in 2022.
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Malian army detains leaders, triggering condemnation, coup fears
President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane lead an interim government that was installed under the threat of regional sanctions following a putsch in August, and the detentions on Monday raised fears of a second coup.
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Mali woman gives birth to nine babies: government
Mali's government flew 25-year-old Halima Cisse, a woman from the north of the poor West African state, to Morocco for better care on March 30. She was initially believed to have been carrying septuplets.
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Mali post-coup govt says elections set for February 2022
The first round of voting for the presidency and legislature will take place on February 27 2022, followed by runoff votes on March 13 and 22 respectively, the minister of territorial administration, Lieutenant Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga, told reporters.
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Four UN troops die in major attack in northern Mali
The peacekeepers "bravely pushed back a complex attack carried out by several heavily armed terrorists," MINUSMA said, adding the attackers had suffered heavy losses and had abandoned "several of their dead".
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Strike kills six in Mali in disputed circumstances
It was the second time in recent months that an air strike had led to such opposing versions of what happened.
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Niger political veterans to face off in presidential vote
Niger is the world's poorest nation, according to the UN's benchmark of development of 189 countries, and is struggling with jihadist insurgencies that have spilled over from Mali and Nigeria.
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20 peacekeepers wounded in Mali attack: UN
Unidentified militants attacked a temporary base near Kerena, a village in the war-torn centre of the Sahel state, at around 7 am.
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Africa records higher death rates during coronavirus second wave
Africa has so far recorded around 3.3 million cases of COVID-19 and nearly 82,000 deaths, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
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French soldier in Mali shoots two others in drunken fight
The confrontation under the influence happened overnight from 24 to 25 December at a base in Gao in eastern Mali.
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UN Mali probe sees war crimes, crimes against humanity
The landlocked Sahel country descended into violence in 2012 when ethnic Tuareg separatists launched an insurgency in the north of the country, which was then overtaken by an armed campaign by jihadists.
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Mali seizes $8.5 million of gold hidden in car
The 143 kilograms of gold was en route to neighbouring Guinea.
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Bomb kills Malian soldier and wounds five
Mali is struggling with an Islamist insurgency that first erupted in the north but has since spread to the centre of the country, as well as spilling over into neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger.
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Mali's interim legislature sits for first time
Young army officers in the conflict-ridden Sahel state toppled president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on August 18 after weeks of anti-government protests.
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'Democratic backsliding' in W.Africa as election season begins
Millions more will vote across the region - in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Nigeria - before the year is out, under the wary eye of defenders of democracy.
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Mali interim Vice President Assimi Goita frees political and military figures
They former prisoners would "remain at the disposition of the courts if needed".
