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08.06.2022
UN condemns second ‘cowardly’ attack in three days against peacekeepers

Two Egyptian peacekeepers serving with the UN Mission in Mali, MINUSMA, were killed on Friday - the second fatal attack this week on a peacekeeping convoy in the West African country. 

Source: UN News
06.06.2022
Mali Junta adopts 24-month transition to democratic rule

Mali's military junta will take 24 months from March 2022 to restore civilian rule after an August 2020 coup, its spokesman said on Monday, the latest move in negotiations with regional bloc ECOWAS to lift sanctions crippling the economy

Source: VOA News
01.06.2022
Deadly convoy attack ‘tragic reminder’ of threats to peacekeepers

[…] For roughly an hour, the convoy came under direct fire from suspected members of a terrorist group using small arms and rocket launchers.  Four Jordanian peacekeepers serving with the UN Mission in Mali, MINUSMA, were injured in the attack, one of whom died from his injuries after being evacuated. 

Source: UN News
30.05.2022
UN report links Mali army to rise in rights abuses

Civilian deaths and rights abuses attributable to the Malian armed forces and backed by “foreign military elements” have surged in the first quarter of 2022, a United Nations report has said, with the killings seeing a 324 percent rise during the previous quarter.

Source: Al Jazeera
18.05.2022
EU leaves military training in Mali suspended, stops short of ending mission

The EU will leave its military training mission in Mali suspended, but will not terminate it for the time being, the bloc’s top diplomat Josep Borrell said on Tuesday (May 17).

Source: EurActiv
18.05.2022
Amid alarm over Mali’s withdrawal from regional security architecture, top peace official briefs SC on challenges to ending terrorism in Sahel

Terrorism in the Sahel is a slow-burning, mortal threat, a senior United Nations peace operations official told the Security Council today as speakers expressed alarm about the recent departure of Mali from the region’s security architecture.

Source: UN Press Release
17.05.2022
Colonel close to Mali junta linked to coup attempt, sources say

A colonel reputed to be close to Mali's ruling junta has been arrested following what the authorities describe as an attempted coup, two sources said Tuesday. The junta late Monday announced that last week it had thwarted a would-be putsch led by army officers and "supported by a Western state."

Source: VOA News
15.05.2022
Mali withdraws from regional anti-jihadist force

Mali said Sunday it was withdrawing from a west African force fighting jihadists to protest it being rejected as head of the G5 regional group, which also includes Mauritania, Chad, Burkina, and Niger.

Source: The Defense Post
11.05.2022
Germany shifts focus of military missions in Mali, Niger

Germany on Wednesday said it had agreed to raise its contingent in the UN's MINUSMA peacekeeping mission in Mali to a maximum of 1,400 troops from around 1,100. The German government has also decided to reduce its training mission as part of the EU's deployment EUTM, halving its upper limit from 600 to 300. Most of the redeployed forces will be moved to neighboring Niger.

Source: Deutsche Welle
11.05.2022
Report of the Secretary-General on the Joint Force of the G5 Sahel

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Source: S/2022/382