The Latest Breaking News from Mali

The US State Department has said it "regrets" the Mali military regime's decision to call for the United Nations to withdraw its peacekeeping force from the West African country.

The results of the referendum in Mali are due this week. For the ruling junta, the referendum paves the way for new elections in 2024. However, many have described it as a "catastrophic failure".

The West African nation’s military rulers criticised MINUSMA’s ‘failure’ to respond to security challenges.

The June 18 referendum could pave the way for presidential elections to hold in Mali in February 2024.

Everton have been linked with a move for Almeria's Mali international striker El Bilal Toure

More than 300 of the peacekeepers in MINUSMA have also been killed since the start of the Mali mission in 2013.

France wants to achieve its ends mainly by defeating jihadists militarily, whereas local leaders want to secure political solutions through talks. Which looks a lot like a replay of old colonial-era dynamics, Rémi Carayol writes in this month's Le Monde Diplomatique.

More than 16 million people affected by conflict and climate change in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger need humanitarian aid, according to an American NGO report published on Monday.

Campaigning for Mali's referendum on long-delayed changes to its constitution kicked off on Friday, ahead of the vote on 18 June. The country's military rulers say the new constitution has been drafted with the input of ordinary citizens, but some observers fear it will concentrate power in the hands of…