Bamako has cut ties with Kyiv, accusing it of complicity in an attack that killed Malian soldiers and Russian Wagner troops. The diplomatic spat started last week after a spokesperson for Ukraine’s military spy agency revealed cryptically that the rebels had the “necessary information” to execute the July attack. Mali took action “without conducting a thorough study of the facts …
UNITED NATIONS — Two U.N. peacekeepers from Nigeria were killed and four others wounded in an attack Friday on a peace patrol in the town of Timbuktu in northern Mali, the United Nations said. The U.N. Security Council said a member of Mali’s security forces was also killed in the attack. The council stressed that involvement in planning, directing, sponsoring …
Malian soldiers have been accused of killing an estimated 300 civilians in the central Malian town of Moura in late March. "The incident is the worst single atrocity reported in Mali's decade-long armed conflict," the HRW report said. "The soldiers patrolled through town, executing several men as they tried to flee, and detaining hundreds of unarmed men from the market …
DAKAR, Senegal — Mali’s army and foreign soldiers suspected to be Russian recently killed an estimated 300 men — some of them suspected Islamic extremist fighters but most civilians — in Moura in central Mali, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. It is the worst single atrocity reported in Mali’s 10-year armed conflict against Islamic extremists, according to the rights group …
