Mali's military leader Gen Assimi Goïta has been granted a five-year presidential term by the transitional parliament, which ...

Five years after taking power by force, Mali's junta leader, General Assimi Goita, has abandoned his promise of a democratic ...

Mali's military authorities on Thursday granted the junta chief a five-year presidential mandate, renewable "as many times as ...

Mali and Russia have signed a raft of new agreements aimed at expanding bilateral trade and intensifying economic ...

Mali and Russia have signed a series of agreements aimed at expanding mutual trade and strengthening economic ties. Among them is a pledge for greater cooperation on nuclear energy, according to ...

Army strongmen who have seized power in coups across Africa's Sahel region since 2020 have ramped up pressure on foreign ...

The latest coup also creates serious economic risks and compounds a tense social climate. Massive union actions that have been recurring since 2018, the impact of COVID-19 and sanctions by the ...

Here’s how the Malian coup unfolded, and a timeline of the military takeovers that have since followed: The leader of Mali’s ruling military government Colonel Assimi Goita, centre, attends an ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Malian authorities have arrested suspects after an announcement by the ruling junta that it had foiled a coup attempt supported by an unnamed Western government.

BAMAKO, Mali -- Mali coup leader Col. Assimi Goita was sworn in Monday as president of a transitional government, solidifying his grip on power in the West African nation after carrying out his ...

The coup participants believe the CNT is already dominated by the corrupt and likely to produce another corrupt government. The CNT is composed of 121 members generally agreed to represent the Mali ...

Just a decade ago, Mali was held up as a paragon of democratic virtue, following the 1991 coup that overthrew dictator Moussa Traoré, 23 years after he seized power in his own putsch.