The Latest Breaking News from Mali

Benin has decided to terminate its military and police unit contributions to a United Nations peacekeeping mission in regional neighbour Mali, the U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said on Thursday.

The decision to abandon the multinational effort may further isolate Bamako on the regional and global stage.

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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French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has been summoned by a court in Bamako as part of an investigation into an alleged "attack on public property and other offences" dating back to 2015, concerning the manufacture of Malian biometric passports. This comes at a time of tense relations between France…

Security experts have warned that armed groups across the Sahel could spread operations to coastal states like Togo.

When media rights are curtailed, fake news and posts on social platforms drive tension and violence, as the latest World Press Freedom Index starkly shows