# 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).
# mali - Tuesday 10 December, 2013
# Islamic Extremists
# Islamic Extremists
The violence comes with Mali ans due to vote on Sunday in a second round of parliamentary polls.
# mali - Saturday 2 November, 2013
# News Fix
# News Fix
Everyone’s talking about remains found in Meath, Roy Keane and the property tax deadline.
# Kidnapped
# Kidnapped
The journalists had recently interviewed a rebel leader in the country.
# mali - Wednesday 30 October, 2013
# Kidnapping
# Kidnapping
The four men were kidnapped in 2010 by the North African wing of al-Qaida.
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