The Latest Breaking News from Mali

Armed men have kidnapped an Italian couple and their son in southern Mali, their church said on Friday.

Chad's interim president Mahamat Idriss Deby has urged Mali's military junta to reconsider its decision to withdraw from a five-nation military force fighting Islamist militants in the Sahel region.

Assimi Goita’s military government accuses an unnamed Western state of supporting the alleged coup attempt.

Mali's interim government on Monday said "Western-backed" military officers attempted a coup last week, without providing details or evidence.

In recent years, resentment against the presence of France in its former African colonies has been on the increase.

Mali's military junta has announced that it will quit the West African G5 Sahel anti-jihadist force after it was blocked from assuming the presidency of the regional group.

Since 2012, armed groups have sought to unseat government in Bamako, which has now been overthrown twice by the military

Mali is pulling out of a multi-national military force in West Africa's Sahel region combatting an Islamist insurgency, citing a lack of progress, the country's military junta said in a statement on Sunday.

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