Mali

Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have lifted economic and financial sanctions imposed on Mali, after its military rulers proposed a 24-month transition to democracy and published a new electoral law.
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France is to complete its withdrawal from Mali within the next few months when its main military base at Gao will be returned to Malian forces.
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Mali's military junta says it thwarted an attempted coup last week led by "Western-backed" soldiers. The alleged foiled coup took place on the night between 11 and 12 May, the junta said in a statement without providing evidence.
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Mali has accused the French army of "spying" after it used a drone to film footage, which purported to show soldiers burying bodies near a military base that was recently returned by France.
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Harrowing accounts are emerging of Malian troops and suspected Russian mercenaries allegedly executing about 300 people in central Mali.
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Mali's ruling junta ordered French broadcasters RFI and France 24 off the air on Wednesday night, complaining they had falsely accused the army of committing abuses.
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The fighting comes days after France and its allies said they were withdrawing their forces from Mali.
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The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a think-tank in Washington, has found evidence since 2016 of Russian soldiers of fortune in more than a dozen countries including Sudan, Madagascar, Botswana, Burundi and the…
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa who came to power through a military coup in 2017 has connived with the rest of the African Union (AU) members to condemn the overthrow of constitutional governments in other parts of the continent.
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"Wagner is in Mali," General Stephen Townsend, the head of US Africa Command, said in an interview with Voice of America, "They are there, we think, numbering several hundred now."
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