Soldiers and mercenaries killed at least 34 civilians in Mali, Amnesty report says
The report says 34 civilians were unlawfully killed and 23 more died in drone strikes, with pastoralist communities disproportionately targeted.
- On Tuesday, Amnesty International released a report detailing war crimes committed by the Malian armed forces and Russia's Wagner Group during joint operations between June 2023 and December 2025, including unlawful killings and torture of civilians.
- Following coups in 2020 and 2021, Mali's military government turned to Wagner mercenaries to bolster security; the partnership persisted until Africa Corps replaced Wagner in June 2025 under Russian Defense Ministry control.
- The report documents 34 unlawful killings across seven locations and two drone strikes in the Timbuktu region killing at least 23 people, including five children, mostly targeting pastoralist communities based on ethnicity.
- Marceau Sivieude, Amnesty International's Regional Director for West and Central Africa, urged Malian authorities to launch impartial investigations, though the government has denied killing civilians in its anti-jihadist operations.
- Although Mali notified its withdrawal from the Rome Statute in June 2026, the International Criminal Court will maintain jurisdiction over crimes committed under its statute until June 23, 2027.
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Human rights organization Amnesty International accuses the Malian armed forces and the Russian mercenary army Wagner of war crimes. These were committed during joint operations in the African country between 2023 and 2025, according to a report.
The Malian armed forces and Russian paramilitaries have been accused several times of killing civilians in operations in recent years.
Mali: Damning evidence of war crimes by state armed forces and Wagner Group personnel – new report
Members of Mali’s armed forces working together with personnel from the Wagner Group committed war crimes, including the murder and torture of civilians, during joint operations between 2023 and 2025, Amnesty International said in a new report. ‘No one is spared’: War crimes committed by the Malian army and foreign allied forces along the Mauritanian […]
"No one is spared." This is the title of the report published Tuesday, 29 September 2026 by Amnesty International, which investigated cases of killings, torture and enforced disappearances attributed to the Malian army and its Russian substitutes of the Wagner group, now Africa Corps. The human rights NGO interviewed victims and witnesses of military operations conducted between June 2023 and December 2025 in seven localities in the regions of T…
Soldiers and mercenaries killed at least 34 civilians in Mali, Amnesty report says
At least 34 civilians were killed in seven incidents during military joint operations in Mali by the army and Russia's Wagner mercenary group between June 2023 and December 2025, Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday.
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