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Events

March

April
  • April 19 - 2nd round of the 2020 Malian parliamentary election[2]

May
  • May 10 - Three Chadian peacekeepers with MINUSMA were killed, and four wounded, in a roadside bomb attack in Aguelhok.[3]
  • May 26 - 20 people were killed and at least 11 injured when a minibus traveling between Bamako and Narena collided with a truck.[4]

June

July
  • July 5 - President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita met with imam Mahmoud Dicko, leader of the June 5 protest movement.[6]
  • July 11-12 - Protesters in Bamako clashed with security forces, who reportedly fired live rounds at the protesters. 11 people were reportedly killed and another 124 injured.[7]

Deaths
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References
  1. "Mali: first round of legislative elections set for March 29". Jeune Afrique. 23 January 2020. (in French)
  2. AFP, Le Figaro fr avec (2018-09-13). "Mali: les élections législatives reportées d'un mois". Le Figaro.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-01-02.
  3. "UN peacekeepers killed in Mali after patrol hits IED". France 24. May 10, 2020. Three UN troops were killed and four more wounded when their convoy hit a roadside bomb early Sunday [...] Chadian peacekeepers were on a routine patrol in Aguelhok commune in the north of the country [...] Three soldiers were killed and four were seriously wounded in the blast
  4. Agence France-Presse (May 27, 2020). "At least 20 killed as minibus collides with truck in Mali". Al Jazeera English. At least 20 people have been killed and 11 seriously injured after a minibus and a truck collided in the south of Mali, the country's transport ministry said on Wednesday. The accident occurred on Tuesday at 8pm (20:00 GMT) on a major road linking the capital Bamako with the town of Narena on the border with Guinea, the ministry said in a statement.
  5. Diallo, Tiemoko; McAllister, Edward (June 20, 2020). Fincher, Christina; Harrison, Mike (eds.). "West African bloc urges Mali to re-run disputed elections amid mass protests". Reuters.
  6. "Mali: President Keita meets protest leader Mahmoud Dicko". Al Jazeera English. A video posted on the presidency's Twitter account showed the meeting between President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Mahmoud Dicko, an imam and leading figure of the so-called June 5 movement, in the capital, Bamako, on Saturday.
  7. "Calls for calm as Mali gov't criticised for response to protests". Al Jazeera English. July 13, 2020. Bloody protests broke out in the capital, Bamako, on Friday and Saturday, with reports saying security forces fired live rounds during clashes with demonstrators, some of whom had occupied state buildings. [...] A senior official at an emergency department of a major hospital in Bamako was quoted by AFP news agency as saying 11 people died and 124 were injured since Friday.
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