The UN Peacekeepers in Mali are set to leave the country after Mali’s Foreign Minister, Abdoulaye Diop, issued a demand for their immediate withdrawal from the country while speaking to the UN Security Council on Friday, June 16. Diop has accused the peacekeeping force of failing to effectively address the ongoing insurgency by extremist groups […]
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Human Rights Organisation, Amnesty International has called on the Malian authorities to get justice for the killings of at least 18 protesters and bystanders during the coup d’état that began in May 2020 and ended in August 2020. Amnesty International in a new report “Killed, wounded, and forgotten?” released on Friday highlighted fatal shootings of […]
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“The criminals came to our village during the night and they killed my husband, burned down our house and took all our livestock,” says A., now a widowed mother. “I gathered what was left of our possessions and I fled with my four children. Since that day, my son O. has not stopped crying. Every […]
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The Malian capital Bamako has become a sort of ‘Wild West’ within the past several months with an alarming spike in murders, traffic jams and criminal aggressions in broad daylight. The most frightening part of the increase in crime rate is that almost all the perpetrators use light arms and in some cases, weapons usually […]
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