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]
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 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]
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.
December 23 – United Nations investigators say both the military and rebel groups have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity since 2012.[26]
^"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
^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.
^"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.
^"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.
Years in Mali (1960–present)