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Since the conflict in Mali erupted, violence has spread to neighbours in the Sahel region and reached the north of coastal countries. Dozens killed in Mali attack by Al Qaeda affiliate
On 17 September 2024, armed men attacked several locations across Bamako, the capital of Mali.At least 70 people were killed and more than 200 others were injured. The Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimin, an Islamist militant group affiliated with al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility.
Following independence in 1960, Mali initially followed a socialist path and was aligned ideologically with the communist bloc. Mali's foreign policy orientation became increasingly pragmatic and pro-Western over time. Since the institution of a democratic form of government in 1992, Mali's relations with the West in general and the United ...
Mali is a landlocked country in West Africa, located southwest of Algeria. It lies between latitudes 10° and 25°N, and longitudes 13°W and 5°E. Mali borders Algeria to the north-northeast, Niger to the east, Burkina Faso to the south-east, Ivory Coast to the south, Guinea to the south-west, and Senegal to the west and Mauritania to the ...
The Alliance of Sahel States (AES/ASS [4] [5] [6] [a]) is a confederation [9] formed between Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso.It originated as a mutual defense pact created on 16 September 2023 following the 2023 Nigerien crisis, in which the West African political bloc ECOWAS threatened to intervene militarily to restore civilian rule after a coup in Niger earlier that year.
Nine months prior to the 2021 coup, in August 2020, President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta was removed from power by a group of military officers. [8] This followed months of unrest in Mali following irregularities in the March and April parliamentary elections and outrage against the kidnapping of opposition leader Soumaila Cissé.
Mali – landlocked sovereign country located in West Africa. [ 1] It is the seventh most extensive country in Africa, bordering Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Consisting of eight regions, Mali's borders on the north ...
France had begun settling on the coast of modern Senegal in the 17th century, gradually extending their rule further inland during the mid-1800s onward. [3] [4] The areas east of the Falémé river (i.e. roughly modern Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger) were originally under Senegalese administration as Upper Senegal, but were split off as French Sudan in 1893. [2]