Mali is plagued by armed groups, making swaths of territory ungovernable, and UN peacekeepers have been kicked out.

Somalia asked the United Nations’ political mission in the country to cease operations by October, even as the East African ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has conveyed his condolences to Governments of Bangladesh and Mali over killing of four UN peacekeepers in Mali's central Mopti region. In a statement ...

Russian mercenaries are wringing wealth and political leverage out of the Sahel.

Mali has been hit by an insurgency for more ... It expelled French troops and UN peacekeepers and brought in Russia's Wagner group to help fight the jihadists, but there is no sign of the ...

The operator of the Loulo-Gounkoto gold complex increased tax, royalty and dividend payments to the Malian government by almost half to $380.7 million last year.

Mali has been ruled by a junta since a 2020 ... The junta pushed out France's anti-jihadist force in 2022 and the UN peacekeeping mission MINUSMA in 2023, and turned politically and militarily ...

After a protracted and intricate 16-year funding battle between the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and the African ...

Mali's ruling junta has ... was still involved in a UN stabilization mission (MINUSMA) there at the time, but withdrew the last German peacekeepers in December. Germany's Defense Ministry said ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo asked the UN forces to leave last year despite ongoing fighting that has displaced millions ...

At least thirty two UN peacekeepers, including seven from Pakistan, lost their lives in different peacekeeping missions in 2022. United Nation's Staff Union President Aitor Arauz in a statement said ...