Press Releases

  • A MINUSMA Attack Helicopter Crashes North of Gao – Two Killed
    17 Mar 2015 - At around 1 p.m. today, an Apache attack helicopter of MINUSMA had to make a hard landing about 42 kilometres north of Gao (in northern Mali). The two crew members lost their lives in this accident, which took place during an exercise conducted by MINUSMA’s Dutch contingent in...

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    Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of MINUSMA Meets President of Niger
    10 Mar 2015 - Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of MINUSMA Meets President of Niger Bamako, 9 March 2015 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of MINUSMA, Mr. Mongi Hamdi, visited Niamey yesterday. He met with the President of the Republic of...
  • MINUSMA Targeted by Complex Attack with Repeated Shelling This Morning in Kidal
    08 Mar 2015 - At around 5:40 this morning, the MINUSMA compound in Kidal was targeted by a complex attack involving more than 30 rockets and shells. Once they had established from where the rockets were being fired, MINUSMA troops immediately returned fire 2 kilometers from the compound, at...
  • Workshops on Lessons Learned and the Cantonment : Mali and the international community enable the path to dialogue
    12 Feb 2015 - Two workshops on Reflection will be held on the 13th of February in Bamako, with the aim of relaunching political dialogue in Mali. The Government and Malian armed groups, accompanied by the international community, and social and civil experts will meet to tackle diverse...
  • Security Council Press Statement on Mali
    14 Sep 2014 - 14 September - The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the attack on a military vehicle in the vicinity of Aguelok, Mali, on 14 September 2014, in which one Chadian peacekeeper of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission...
  • SRSG in Kidal with Mauritanian President and current chairman of the African Union
    23 May 2014 - The SRSG accompanied the President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and current chairman of the African Union, H.E.M Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, during his visit to Kidal. Transportation was provided by MINUSMA. During the visit, they held discussions with the armed movements...
  • Continuation of Preparatory work on the Cantonments
    17 Feb 2014 - The Malian government and Malian armed groups have today continued informal discussions on the preparation for a future process of Cantonment. This follows a seminar on Cantonments that was facilitated at the beginning of last week by MINUSMA, and was attended by the...
  • Continuation of Dialogue in Mali
    14 Feb 2014 - The Government, Malian armed groups, social and civil experts, and the international community have met to tackle diverse topics since this Thursday in Bamako.During workshops held on Thursday, the involved parties drew lessons from past peace agreements and expressed a keen...
  • SRSG Albert Koenders congratulates Mali for the second round of the parliamentary elections
    16 Dec 2013 - Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Chief of MINUSMA, Albert Koenders, congratulates the Government and the people of Mali for the proper conduct of the second round of parliamentary elections, in which no major incident occurred. “These elections were crucial...
  • MINUSMA Press Statement on the Kidal 28 November Incident
    29 Nov 2013 - MINUSMA strongly condemns the violence that took place yesterday in Kidal prior to the scheduled arrival of the Prime Minister and a Government delegation. The Mission deplores the fact that, despite a security plan coordinated by the Malian Government on Wednesday in...

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