January 3 -Mali wedding airstrike: France says it neutralized dozens of jihadists in an airstrike but people in the town of Bounti inMopti Region, say that twenty wedding guests were killed by a low-flying helicopter.[4]
January 25 – U.S. Navy SEAL Tony DeDolph is sentenced to ten years of prison for murdering U.S. Army Green Beret Logan Melgar while serving in2017 in Mali.[9]
January 31 – Three hundred British troops with 60 light vehicles join 14,000 United Nations peacekeepers under Chinese command. This is a different mission from the French mission that is supported by 90 British troops and threeChinook helicopters.[10]
February 25 – Nine soldiers are killed and nine wounded in an attack inBandiagara, Mopti.[12]
March 30 – A United Nations investigation by theUN peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA) finds that a 3 January French military airstrike on the village of Bounty, hit a wedding group largely made up of civilians, leaving 22 people dead, including 19 civilians.[13][14]
June 7 –Assimi Goïta is sworn-in asPresident of Mali after the recent coup d'état, which was considered a "coup within a coup" after Goïta, who directed the2020 coup, carried out another coup and arrested the leaders that were in charge after the 2020 coup.[21]
July 4 – FourMalian soldiers are killed in anambush on their patrol. No group claims responsibility for the attack, which comes asFrance resumes joint military exercises with members of theMalian Armed Forces, which had been suspended following thecoup d'état this year led by ColonelAssimi Goïta.[23]
August 8 – At least 51 people are killed asIslamist militants storm three villages in centralMali, near the border withNiger. It is one of the deadliest recent terror attacks in the country against civilians.[28]
August 19 –Jihadistsambush a convoy inMopti, killing 11 soldiers and wounding 10 others. Aroadside bomb hit the convoy, and gunmen then opened fire.
September 28 –Mali accusesFrance of "abandoning the country" by reducing itsforces in the fight againstjihadist groups. In response to the remarks, France accuses Mali'smilitary junta of "wiping their feet on the blood of French soldiers".[36]
October 2 – AUnited Nations peacekeeper is killed and three others are seriously injured when anIED detonates near where they were patrolling in the volatile north of the country, nearthe border withAlgeria.[38]
October 6 – A battle betweenjihadists andMalian forces in the centralMopti Region leaves at least nine soldiers and 15insurgents dead. The mayor of the nearby town ofBankass says that up to 16 soldiers were killed in the attack.[39]
October 25 – TheMalian interim government gives the country'sECOWAS representative 72 hours to leaveMali over "actions incompatible with his status", though the government added that they still maintain a "willingness to work together with ECOWAS in the transition".[42]
October 29 – Two employees of the Canadianmining companyIamgold are reported missing following an attack on their convoy inBurkina Faso while travelling toEssakane.[43]
October 30 – Sevensoldiers are killed in two separate attacks on patrols inMourdiah.[44]
December 3 –Mopti bus massacre:Militants attack a bus carrying civilians inMopti Region, killing the driver, beforesetting it on fire and killing 31 passengers. The majority of the victims are women who were on their way to work at the local market.[46]
December 5 – Militants bomb twoUN camps inGao, with no fatalities.[47]
Years inMali (1960–present)