Mali
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- semi-presidential republic
- CONSTITUTION
- January 12, 1992
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- it is based on the French system and local customs
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, National Assembly
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Justice
RELIGIONS
90% Muslims; 9% Animists; 1% other
From the country
JANUARY 26, 2023MaliDEATH PENALTYMALI: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER U.N. PEACEKEEPER DEATHS
A court in Mali has sentenced a man to death over a 2019 attack that killed three United Nations peacekeepers, the peacekeeping mission MINUSMA said on 25 January 2023 without naming the defendant.
- DECEMBER 31, 2022MaliDEATH PENALTY
MALI: 46 IVORIAN SOLDIERS SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS IN PRISON; DEATH IN ABSENTIA GIVEN TO 3
Forty-six Ivorian soldiers in Mali were each sentenced on 30 December 2022 to 20 years in prison by a Malian court for attacking the security of the nation.
NOVEMBER 15, 2020MaliDEATH PENALTYMALI: JIHADIST CHIEF, 14 OTHERS, SENTENCED TO DEATH
A court in Mali’s capital Bamako sentenced an Islamist militant leader and 14 other people to death on 13 November 2020 for jihadist activity in the south of the war-torn Sahel state.
OCTOBER 29, 2020MaliDEATH PENALTYMALI: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER HOTEL, RESTAURANT ATTACKS
A Malian court on 28 October 2020 handed a death sentence to a suspected jihadist and his co-defendant, his lawyer said, after he pleaded guilty to shooting five people to death in a 2015 attack and planning two other attacks targeting Westerners that kil
- JANUARY 1, 2020MaliDEATH PENALTY
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
NOVEMBER 22, 2019MaliDEATH PENALTYMALI: MURDERER OF IMAM SENTENCED TO DEATH
Mali’s court on 19 November 2019 sentenced the murderer of an Imam to death.
- JANUARY 1, 2019MaliDEATH PENALTY
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
- JANUARY 1, 2018MaliDEATH PENALTY
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
- MAY 18, 2017MaliDEATH PENALTY
Unmarried Mali couple stoned to death for violating 'Islamic law'
On 18 May 2017, un unmarried couple were stoned to death in public in northeast Mali by "Islamists", local officials revealed, the first such incident since jihadist groups were driven out of the region.
- MAY 16, 2017MaliDEATH PENALTY
MALI: UNMARRIED COUPLE STONED TO DEATH
An unmarried couple were stoned to death in public in northeast Mali by Islamists, the first such incident since jihadist groups overran the region five years ago.
- JANUARY 1, 2017MaliDEATH PENALTY
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
- JANUARY 1, 2016MaliDEATH PENALTY
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...