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Mali: How Mali security services sabotaged peaceF

Aug 14, 2020 - United Nations experts have accused senior army and intelligence officials in Mali of deliberately obstructing a shaky 2015 peace accord, originally designed to reduce violence in the war-torn West African country. The revelations appear in an expert...

Mali security forces used excessive force against protestersF

Bamako, Aug 12, 2020 - Security forces in Mali used excessive force in response to violent anti-government protests in the fragile West African state last month, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. A demonstration against President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita turned violent...

Mali’s new Constitutional Court presidentF

Bamako, Aug 9, 2020 - Newly-appointed judges at Mali's Constitutional Court, which is at the centre of a political crisis in the fragile country, on Sunday elected political veteran Amadou Ousmane Toure as their president, officials told AFP. The move comes after...

Mali braces for more political turmoil, as calls for protests build upF

Mali's opposition vowed to stage nationwide protests Tuesday seeking embattled President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's ouster, after a lull in a six-month crisis rocking the fragile Sahel state. Addressing reporters in the capital Bamako, opposition figure Choguel Maiga...