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The Africa-America Institute’s “Following the Gold Road” online conference starting Jan. 14 and Afropop’s “Mali Gold” Playlist This story is written and edited by Afropop Worldwide We’re pleased to announce the launch of the Africa-America Institute’s State of Education 2026 Conference – “Following The Gold Road–Global Medieval Africa in the Time of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai.” This […]
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A quiet desert night in northern Mali turned deadly when an apparent military drone launched its explosive munition on a tent, leaving an entire family dead. The strike was a recent example of Malian military operations killing civilians and may amount to a war crime. The November 13 strike at about 9:30 p.m. on the village […]
...African Union Should Urgently Take Action to Promote Accountability for Abuses Mali’s military and allied militias killed at least 31 civilians and burned homes on October 2 and 13, 2025, in 2 villages in the country’s embattled Segou region, Human Rights Watch said today. On October 2, Malian army forces and the Dozo, a predominantly […]
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Mali Mali, a landlocked country in Western Africa, shares a border with Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d’Ivoire on the south, Guinea to the south-west, Senegal and Mauritania to the west, and Algeria to the north. According to world population review Mali’s population is estimated at 24,478,600 (2024) and the country’s […]
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Mali’s junta has arrested prominent politician Issa Kaou N’Djim for allegedly insulting Burkina Faso’s military leader, a crime under Malian law. N’Djim, a former ally of Mali’s military regime who later advocated for a return to democracy, criticized Burkina Faso’s junta on Joliba TV, claiming they fabricated evidence of a coup plot. Subsequently, he was […]
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Investigations Needed Into Indiscriminate Drone Strikes, Summary Killings Malian armed forces and Wagner Group foreign fighters unlawfully killed and summarily executed several dozen civilians in counterinsurgency operations in Mali’s central and northern regions since December. Mali’s Russia-backed transitional military government is committing horrific abuses and is leaving the regional group that could provide scrutiny into […]
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Reinstate Dissolved Groups; Respect Freedoms of Association, Assembly, Expression Mali’s minister of territorial administration’s order to dissolve a student association is just the latest in a series of government actions to crack down on freedom of association. The minister said that the Association of Pupils and Students of Mali (L’Association des Elèves et Etudiants du […]
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Colonel Feared ‘Forcibly Disappeared’ for Speaking Out Against Military Abuse Mali’s military authorities have arrested a colonel from the gendarmerie who recently published a book about abuses by the Malian armed forces, raising fears of an enforced disappearance, Human Rights Watch said today. Various sources, including one who spoke to Human Rights Watch, said that […]
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Attacks, Summary Killings Without Accountability Islamist armed groups and Malian armed forces have killed and otherwise abused numerous civilians in central and northern Mali since April 2023. Violence has intensified across Mali following the May 2021 coup. The targeted killing of civilians by Islamist armed groups and the Malian army are war crimes. Malian authorities, with […]
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Ensure Continued Monitoring and Reporting of Rights Abuses, Accountability By Ilaria Allegrozzi | Senior Sahel Researcher | Human Rights Watch Russia dealt a severe blow to rights protections in Mali on August 30 when it vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have extended sanctions against eight people suspected of sabotaging a peace deal and […]
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