Mali War

For other armed conflicts that occurred in northern Mali, see Tuareg rebellion.

Mali War
Part of the Islamist insurgency in the Sahel and the War on terror

Military situation in Mali (as of September 2024). For a detailed map, see here.
Date16 January 2012 – present
(12 years, 10 months and 1 day)
Location
Mali
(with spillover into Algeria, Burkina Faso and Niger)
Status Ongoing
Belligerents

 Mali
 Russia (since 2021)

 France (2013–22)
Supported by:

MINUSMA (2013–23)

Supported by:

Full list

Non-state combatants:
Ganda Iso
MAA-Loyaliste[56][57]
MSA (2016–)

GATIA (Ag Gamou faction) (2014–23)[58]
Wagner Group (2021–)[a][59][60]

Coordination of Azawad Movements
(CMA)[61]

Supported by:
 Ukraine[64]

Al-Qaeda and allies

Nigerian jihadist volunteers (2012–13)

Islamic State - Sahil Province
Commanders and leaders

Mali Assimi Goïta (2021–)
Mali Choguel Kokalla Maïga (2021–)

Former
ECOWAS
Mohamed Lamine Ould Sidatt (NLFA)
Housseine Khoulam (NLFA)[56]
Yevgeny Prigozhin		 Azawad Bilal Ag Acherif
Azawad Mahmoud Ag Aghaly
Azawad Moussa Ag Acharatoumane
Azawad Mohamed Ag Najem[69]
Alghabass Ag Intalla[70]		 Iyad Ag Ghaly
Mokhtar Belmokhtar †
Abdelhamid Abou Zeid †[71][72]
Abdelmalek Droukdel †[73]
Ahmed al-Tilemsi †[67]
Omar Ould Hamaha †[74]
Ba Ag Moussa †		 Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi †
Abu Huzeifa †[75]
Strength

Mali 6,000–7,000[76]
(pre-war: ~12,150)[77]
France 3,000[78]
Chad 2,000[11]
Germany 1,400 (2022)[79]
Egypt 1,216[80]
Nigeria 1,200[2][81]
Togo 733[53]
Sierra Leone 650[82]
Burkina Faso 500[2]
Ivory Coast 500[53]
Niger 500[2]
Senegal 500[2]
Netherlands 450[83]
Sweden 400 (2021)[84]
China 395[20]
United Kingdom 300
Benin 300[2]
Canada 250[85]
Guinea 144[2]
Ghana 120[2]
Estonia 100[22]
Liberia ~50[86]
Total: 23,564+

European Union 545 (EUTM)[37]

Full list
~500 (FLNA)[56]		 Azawad 3,000[90][91]

1,200–3,000[92][93]

Casualties and losses

Mali 181+ killed,[95]
400 captured[96]
Total:
1,000–1,500+ killed, captured or deserted (by April 2012)[90]

Mali 428+ killed[97]
Chad 104 killed[98]
France 58 killed[99]
Guinea 26 killed[100][101]
Togo 26 killed[102][101]
Russia Wagner group 25–82+ killed[103]
Niger 15 killed[104]
Burkina Faso 27 killed[101]
Bangladesh 10 killed[101]
Egypt 7 killed[105][23][106][107]
Nigeria 7 killed[108][101]
Netherlands 5 killed[109][101]
4 killed[110]

Jordan 4 killed[101]
Ivory Coast 4 killed[111]
Senegal 3 killed[112][113]
Germany 2 killed[114]
Sri Lanka 4 killed[115][101]
Benin 1 killed[115][101]
Cambodia 1 dead[116][101]
China 1 killed[117]
El Salvador 1 dead[116]
Portugal 1 killed[118]
Liberia 1 killed[119]

Azawad 6–65 killed
(conflict with Malian Army)[120][121][122]

26–123 killed
(conflict with Islamists)[123][124][125][126]

60 captured[124][126]
17–19 killed (2013)

115 killed
(Conflict with Tuaregs)[123][124][125][126]

625 killed
(French intervention during Operation Serval)

estimated 2,800+ killed and 169+ captured due the French intervention during Operation Barkhane (between January 2020 and April 2021)

total killed: 3,540+		 Unknown[127]
Displaced:
~144,000 refugees abroad[11]
~230,000 internally displaced persons[11]
Total: ≈374,000[128]

The Mali War[c] is an ongoing conflict that started in January 2012 between the northern and southern parts of Mali in Africa. On 16 January 2012, several insurgent groups began fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, which they called Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organization fighting to make this area of Mali an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012.[129]

On 22 March 2012, President Amadou Toumani Touré was ousted in a coup d'état over his handling of the crisis, a month before a presidential election was to have taken place.[130] Mutinous soldiers, calling themselves the National Committee for the Restoration of Democracy and State (CNRDR), took control and suspended the constitution of Mali.[129] As a consequence of the instability following the coup, Mali's three largest northern cities—Kidal, Gao and Timbuktu—were overrun by the rebels[131] on three consecutive days.[132] On 5 April 2012, after the capture of Douentza, the MNLA said that it had accomplished its goals and called off its offensive. The following day, it proclaimed the independence of northern Mali from the rest of the country, renaming it Azawad.[133]

The MNLA were initially backed by the Islamist group Ansar Dine. After the Malian military was driven from northern Mali, Ansar Dine and a number of smaller Islamist groups began imposing strict Sharia law. The MNLA and Islamists struggled to reconcile their conflicting visions for an intended new state.[134] Afterwards, the MNLA began fighting against Ansar Dine and other Islamist groups, including Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA/MUJAO), a splinter group of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. By 17 July 2012, the MNLA had lost control of most of northern Mali's cities to the Islamists.[135]

The government of Mali asked for foreign military help to re-take the north. On 11 January 2013, the French military began operations against the Islamists.[92] Forces from other African Union states were deployed shortly after. By 8 February, the Islamist-held territory had been re-taken by the Malian military, with help from the international coalition. Tuareg separatists have continued to fight the Islamists as well, although the MNLA has also been accused of carrying out attacks against the Malian military.[136]

A peace deal between the government and Tuareg rebels was signed on 18 June 2013,[137] however on 26 September 2013 the rebels pulled out of the peace agreement and claimed that the government had not respected its commitments to the truce.[138] In mid-2014, the French military in Mali ended its Operation Serval and transitioned to the broader regional counterterrorist effort, Operation Barkhane. Despite a ceasefire agreement signed on 19 February 2015 in Algiers, Algeria, and a peace accord in the capital on 15 April 2015, fighting continued.[139][140]

Starting in 2018, there was an increase in rebel attacks in the Sahel, accompanied by a French troop surge. Mali experienced two coups in 2020 and 2021, both orchestrated by the Malian military. After the Malian coup in 2021, the government and French forces in the country had a falling out, with the former demanding the latter's withdrawal. Amid popular Malian anti-French protests and increasing involvement in the war by the Russian mercenary Wagner Group and the Turkish, the French withdrew their forces entirely by 15 August 2022, ending their presence in the country.[141][142]

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