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Mali’s military government has threatened to take back Barrick Gold’s Loulo mine concession when the current permit expires in 2026, amid an escalating dispute over how to divide the economic ...

In 2020, Mali’s fourth successful military coup installed the leadership of the Comité National pour le Salut du Peuple (CNSP). Although the military takeover reflects an overall weakening of ...

Mali has been grappling with a complex crisis since 2012 along with inter-communal violence, which has claimed thousands of lives and displaced hundreds of thousands of others.

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Mali's junta leader Colonel Assimi Goita and five other key figures in the military administration have been promoted to general, according to a statement released after a cabinet meeting Wednesday.

The Minister of National Security, Albert Kan-Dapaah, has emphasised the need for security experts to lead the fight against ...

The goalkeeper is caught in no-man's land but Dayo is well under his header and it flies over. How about that for a start from Mali, their first attack and a goal. Burkina Faso swing a free-kick ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The head of the military junta that seized power in Mali in 2020 promoted himself Wednesday to the rank of army general with special title: Colonel Assimi Goita of the land ...