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,"...

The Mali court of law has ratified the election result release last week by the ministry of territorial administration and also confirmed President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's win in this month's runoff election, rejecting fraud accusations by the opposition candidate Soumaila Cisse.The verdict which was delivered on Monday by the country's top court clears the way for Keita to begin his second five-year term on September 4 after he was declared the winner of Mali'...