No fewer than seven people were killed on Sunday in an attack in central Mali.The diocese of the Mopti region said the attack in Segue village claimed the life of a relative of a cleric and six other men.A statement by the diocese secretary and priest, Daniel Camille Togo, said the assault also caused a lot of property damage.A civil society group, the Patriotic Movement for the Unity and Safeguarding of the Bankass Cercle, expressed shock over the terrorist attack,...

In Mali, the northern Tuareg rebels said they had killed and injured dozens of soldiers and Wagner mercenaries in two days of fighting near the Algerian border, after the army said it had lost two soldiers but killed some 20 rebels.The rebel movement, the Permanent Strategic Framework for Peace, Security and Development (CSP-PSD), said in a statement on Saturday that[b] it had seized armoured vehicles, trucks and tankers in the fighting at the border town of Tinzaou...

As the West Africa country; Mali continues to witness a continuous disruption of democracy, the West African leaders, meeting in a regional summit Sunday in Ghana has now suspended Mali from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) bodies after a second coup by the Malian military."The suspension from ECOWAS takes immediate effect until the deadline of the end of February 2022 when they are supposed to hand over to a democratically elected government,"...