2020 in Mali

March 26 – Opposition leader Soumaila Cisse and six members of his team are kidnapped.^[2]
March 29 – First round of the 2020 Malian parliamentary election^[3]

April 6 – Bamba attack.^{[citation needed]}
April 19 – 2nd round of the 2020 Malian parliamentary election.^[4]
April 24 – Mopti attacks.^{[citation needed]}
April 30 – The Constitutional Court overturns election results for 31 seats and gives Rally for Mali an extra ten seats in Parliament.^[2]

May 10 – Three Chadian peacekeepers with MINUSMA were killed, and four wounded, in a roadside bomb attack in Aguelhok.^[5]
May 23 – Korité, public holiday^[6]^[7]
May 26 – Twenty people were killed and at least 11 injured when a minibus traveling between Bamako and Narena collided with a truck.^[8]
May 30 – Opposition parties establish the Mouvement du 5 juin - Rassemblement des forces patriotiques (in French) (June 5 Movement - Rally of Patriotic Forces).^[2]

June 3 – Battle of Talahandak.^{[citation needed]}
June 5 – Thousands led by Mahmoud Dicko protest under the banner of the June 5 Movement.^[2]
June 11 – Boubou Cisse is reappointed Prime Minister and charged with forming a new government.^[2]
June 19 – Tens of thousands of Malians protested in Bamako to demand the resignation of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita—see 2020 Malian protests.^[9]
June 20 – ECOWAS called for new elections to be held due to disputes about the legitimacy of the 2020 Malian parliamentary election.^[9]

July 5 – President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita meets with imam Mahmoud Dicko, leader of the June 5 protest movement.^[10]
July 11 – 12 – Protesters in Bamako clash with security forces, who reportedly fired live rounds at the protesters. 11 people were reportedly killed and another 124 injured.^[11]^[2]
July 18 – The opposition rejects a new government of national unity proposed by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan,^[12]
July 27 – ECOWAS calls for a unity government and warns of sanctions.^[2]

August 10 – Nine new judges for the Constitutional Court were sworn in. Al Jazeera's Nicolas Haque claimed the judges were nominated by a key Keita ally.^[2]
August 11 – Police use tear gas and water cannons to disperse crowds in Independence Square after protests are renewed.^[13]
August 12 – The June 5 Movement announces daily protests.^[2]
August 18 – 2020 Malian coup d'état
- Soldiers at a base in Kati, Mali mutinied, detaining several civilian and military officials, sparking protests in nearby Bamako.^[14]
- President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta and Prime Minister Boubou Cissé were arrested by mutinying soldiers, as part of a coup d'état reportedly led by Colonel Malick Diaw and General Sadio Camara.^[15]^[16]
August 19 – President Keïta and Prime Minister Cissé are forced to resign; Parliament is dissolved. The National Committee for the Salvation of the People is established.^[2]
August 21 – A report attributed to unidentified sources in the Malian Armed Forces claims that Colonels Malick Diaw and Sadio Camara received training in Russia just a week before the coup.^[17]

September 7 – ECOWAS renews calls for a quick return to civilian rule.^[18]
September 10 – Members of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP) meet with civilian and political leaders in order to establish a transitional civilian government by September 15.^[19]
September 11 – The National Committee for the Salvation of the People proposes a transitional government led by a president appointed by the military for two years.^[20]
September 12 – The CNSP agrees to an 18-month political transition period.^[21]
September 15 – Deadline established by ECOWAS to name a civilian government for a one-year transition to free elections.^[22]

October 5 - Over 100 jihadists were released as part of negotiations to secure the release of Soumaïla Cissé and French aid worker Sophie Pétronin.^[23]
October 8 - Sophie Pétronin and Soumaïla Cissé were released from captivity by jihadist militants.^[24] Two Italian nationals, Nicola Chiacchio and Pier Luigi Maccalli, were also reported released.^[24]
October 9 - Swiss government confirmed that Swiss Christian missionary Béatrice Stöckli was killed in Mali by jihadists.

November 13 – French forces kill jihadist leader Ba Ag Moussa near Ménaka Cercle.^[25]

December 23 – United Nations investigators say both the military and rebel groups have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity since 2012.^[26]
December 29 – Three French soldiers are killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) in Mopti Region.^[27]

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