Tag: Mali

Mali’s military junta must restore power to civilians and arrange quick elections, France’s president said on Tuesday, warning that the French role in fighting...

Until this year, West Africa looked to have shed its “coup-belt” moniker, winning plaudits as a model of democratic progress on the continent. But...

Former Mali defence minister and retired colonel Bah Ndaw was named interim president on Monday while the leader of the junta that seized power...

West African mediators failed to persuade Mali military coup leaders to hand power to a civilian government during talks on Tuesday, the chairman of...

Former Mali military leader Moussa Traore, who overthrew his predecessor in a 1968 coup, died at age 83, a spokesman for the country’s military...

Mali military coup leaders must hand power to a civilian transitional government immediately, the chairman of the West African regional bloc said, as a...

The M5-RFP coalition in Mali that led anti-government protests before last month’s coup rejected a political charter pushed through by the ruling junta on...

Six civilians, including a pregnant woman, were killed in southern Mali when the ambulance they were in hit a landmine, the health ministry said. It...

Police used teargas to disperse campaigners for civilian rule before substantive talks over Mali’s political future began in Bamako on Thursday, indicating a deepening...

Influential Mali cleric Imam Mahmoud Dicko urged the military junta to comply with demands from West African leaders to name a civilian president and...