Mali Bound

Bamako, Aug 18, 2020 - Gunfire broke out at a key army base near Mali's capital Bamako on Tuesday, officials and witnesses said, triggering fears of a mutiny in the crisis-stricken Sahel state.  Details of the events were sketchy, but the sources said the soldiers...

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...

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...

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...