An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team, led by Ms. Wenjie Chen, visited Bamako from June 9 to 13, 2025, to conduct the 2025 Article IV consultation with the Malian authorities. The team held ...

The June 6 announcement by the infamous Wagner Group private military company, that it will end its ...

The Africa Corps, a Kremlin-backed paramilitary force, announced it will maintain its presence in Mali following the recent ...

With a new wave of renegotiations of mining licenses and stricter regulations, how are African countries, particularly in ...

Extremists have killed dozens of soldiers in an attack on a military base in Mali. That's according to civil society and military sources. A civil society activist says Sunday's attack on the base ...

The BCID-AES initiative closely follows technical discussions held in Bamako between the AES and ECOWAS regarding future relations, reflecting a strategic reorientation in West Africa’s geopolitical ...

The milestone meeting, held on Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Bamako, Mali, brought together the ... deep concern over the deteriorating security landscape in the Sahel and agreed on the need for ...

Armed conflicts continue to fuel cycles of radicalisation and extremism, destabilising the international security landscape. From one crisis ... Late last year, Mali’s capital, Bamako, witnessed a ...

Worldcategory· May 7, 2025 Mining convoy attacked in Mali on road to Allied Gold's Sadiola mine, sources say A convoy transporting heavy mining equipment from the Malian capital Bamako to Allied ...

In this recalibrated landscape, Algeria’s role as a stabilising ... “Burkina Faso, which shares a long border with Mali, may lean more closely toward Bamako due to geographic and security interests, ...

A light dusting of green covered the normally desolate landscape ... to Bamako. On January 9, 2013, a thousand Islamic militants in pickup trucks and 4x4s attacked Konna, in central Mali, the ...