# mali - Friday 12 August, 2022
# Germany
# Germany
The Irish Army Ranger Wing will end its participation with German troops in Mali in September.
# mali - Thursday 14 July, 2022
# Africa
# Africa
MINSUMA is the mission in which the Army Ranger Wing is involved.
# mali - Thursday 30 June, 2022
# Mali
# Mali
The exchange between Simon Coveney and Deputy John Brady happened during a Defence and Foreign Affairs committee on peace keeping.
# mali - Thursday 16 June, 2022
# Peace Missions
# Peace Missions
Irish troops are based in the Golan Heights and the Kosovar capital Pristina in UN mandated operations.
# mali - Saturday 19 February, 2022
# Mali
# Mali
There are 34 Irish troops in Mali at present.
# mali - Sunday 16 January, 2022
# All Square
From The42
# All Square
Ibrahima Kone put Mali in front before Musa Barrow drew the sides level in the 90th minute.
# mali - Tuesday 21 September, 2021
# Mali
# Mali
France has deployed troops to Mali and the general Sahel area to fight Jihadist groups.
# mali - Tuesday 25 May, 2021
# Military Coup
# Military Coup
The country’s president and prime minister have been detained by the military, after a coup was carried out last August.
# mali - Wednesday 19 August, 2020
# New Elections
# New Elections
Ibrahim Boubacar Keita’s government had been beset by months of protests.
# mali - Tuesday 18 August, 2020
# Kati
# Kati
Earlier, soldiers in the garrison town of Kati took up arms and detained senior military officers.
# mali - Friday 5 June, 2020
# Mali
# Mali
Abdelmalek Droukdel was the leader of al-Qaeda in north Africa.
# mali - Tuesday 25 February, 2020
# MINUSMA
# MINUSMA
The soldiers were injured around 900km north-east of the capital Bamako.
# mali - Monday 26 August, 2019
# MINUSMA
# MINUSMA
The mission has been described as the most dangerous UN peacekeeping mission in the world.
# mali - Monday 8 July, 2019
# Going Through
From The42
# Going Through
The Crystal Palace star, who is being linked with a move to Arsenal, scored a decisive goal on Monday.
# mali - Thursday 20 June, 2019
# Army Ranger Wing
# Army Ranger Wing
The mission has been described as the most dangerous UN peacekeeping mission in the world.
# mali - Wednesday 19 June, 2019
# Dogon
# Dogon
A vote on Irish troops participating in a UN mission in Mali is due to take place in the Dáil on Thursday.
# mali - Saturday 15 June, 2019
# Explainer
# Explainer
This week, Cabinet approved a proposal to send troops abroad for peacekeeping duties.
# mali - Tuesday 11 June, 2019
# Defence Forces
# Defence Forces
The approval comes after nearly 100 people were killed in recent days in a deadly massacre in the country.
# mali - Monday 10 June, 2019
# Massacre
# Massacre
There are currently 20 Irish Defence Forces personnel deployed to the EU Training Mission in Mali .
# mali - Sunday 9 June, 2019
# Peacekeeping
# Peacekeeping
If approved this would be the first deployment of the ARW overseas in their special forces role since their deployment to Chad in 2008.
# mali - Monday 1 April, 2019
# Defence Forces
# Defence Forces
There are currently 20 Irish Defence Forces personnel deployed to the EU Training Mission (EUTM) in Mali .
# mali - Tuesday 26 February, 2019
# Defence Forces
# Defence Forces
Serious consideration is being given to sending a small contingent of the Irish Army Ranger Wing to Mali .
# mali - Sunday 6 January, 2019
# Mali
# Mali
Varadkar will be accompanied by Minister of State with responsibility for Defence Paul Kehoe.
# mali - Sunday 24 June, 2018
# Mali
# Mali
Violence has increased over the past three years in central Mali in disputes over access to land and water.
# mali - Monday 19 June, 2017
# Irish Soldiers
# Irish Soldiers
Two EU workers were killed in the attack on a hotel on the edge of the capital Bamako.
# mali - Wednesday 12 October, 2016
# Good Samaritan
From The42
# Good Samaritan
The Ivorian has been commended for helping Mali ’s Moussa Doumbia, who was knocked out during their recent international match.
# mali - Monday 21 March, 2016
# Mali
# Mali
Four gunmen attacked a training base in Mali , one was shot dead.
# mali - Sunday 17 January, 2016
# Ansar Dine
# Ansar Dine
The couple have lived in Burkina Faso for over 40 years.
# mali - Saturday 28 November, 2015
# Mali
# Mali
A further 20 people were injured in the pre-dawn attack, four seriously.
# mali - Wednesday 25 November, 2015
# Opinion
# Opinion
Minister Simon Coveney must address the potential dangers involved in sending Irish soldiers to replace French forces, Ryan McCarrel writes.
# mali - Monday 23 November, 2015
# Mali
# Mali
Two separate organisations have now claimed responsibility for the attack on the luxury Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako.
# mali - Friday 20 November, 2015
# Special Forces Storm
# Special Forces Storm
An Al-Qaeda-affiliated group is reportedly claiming responsibility.
# mali - Sunday 6 September, 2015
# Causalities Of War
# Causalities Of War
This week the terrorist group destroyed a 2,000 year old temple — but it’s not its first time.
# mali - Saturday 7 March, 2015
# Masked Killer
# Masked Killer
“The killer came here because there were foreigners. He wanted to kill foreigners, that’s for sure,” a waiter at the club said.
# mali - Friday 23 January, 2015
# Mali
# Mali
The Mbera refugee camp is home to 50,000 people – most of them from northern Mali , a country torn apart by civil war.
# mali - Saturday 25 October, 2014
# Death
# Death
The girl had recently returned to Mali from neighbouring Guinea.
# mali - Friday 25 July, 2014
# Tragedy
# Tragedy
The wreckage of the plane has been located 50km north of the Burkina Faso border in Mali ’s Gossi region.
# Crash
# Crash
France will send a military unit to secure the wreckage.
# mali - Sunday 15 June, 2014
# Missing You
# Missing You
Members of the Defence Forces who are serving in Syria, Lebanon and Mali have sent messages home to their families.
# mali - Thursday 19 December, 2013
Read messages to loved ones from those in some of the smaller overseas missions (where you may not even realise we have troops posted).
Sun and clouds with a couple of showers
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Min: 7 °C
Partly sunny
Max: 15 °C
Min: 10 °C
Rain tapering off; watch for flooding
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