Islam is very important to traditional Malian culture. Muslims currently make up approximately 95 percent of the population of Mali. The majority of Muslims...
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Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over 1,241,238...
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Azawad (redirect from Northern Mali)
Le Figaro (in French). 27 May 2012. Retrieved 31 May 2012. Katarina Höije (27 May 2012). "Mali rebel groups join forces, vowing an Islamic state". CNN...
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Mansa Musa (redirect from Musa of Mali)
ninth Mansa of the Mali Empire, which reached its territorial peak during his reign. Musa's reign is often regarded as the zenith of Mali's power and prestige...
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The Mali Empire (Manding: Mandé or Manden Duguba; Arabic: مالي, romanized: Mālī) was an empire in West Africa from c. 1226 to 1670. The empire was founded...
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forces after Mali merger". Reuters. 20 March 2017. Archived from the original on 28 March 2017. Retrieved 12 April 2017. "Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin...
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Religion in Mali is predominantly Islam with an estimated 95 percent of the population being Muslim, with the remaining 5 percent of Malians adhering to...
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Ansarul Islam is a militant Islamist group active in Burkina Faso and in Mali. It was founded by Boureima Dicko, also known as Ibrahim Malam Dicko, and...
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The Mali War is an ongoing conflict that started in January 2012 between the northern and southern parts of Mali in Africa. On 16 January 2012, several...
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The High Islamic Council of Mali (Haut Conseil islamique malien, HCIM) is an organization created in January 2002 that brings together religious organizations...
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Timbuktu (redirect from Tombouctou, Mali)
important Islamic city on the Saharan trade route and attracted many scholars and traders before it became part of the Mali Empire early in the 14th century...
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Tunisia and taken via Algeria to Mali and freed later that year, the kidnappings were attributed to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb December 2008: Two Canadian...
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The national flag of Mali (French: drapeau du Mali) is a tricolour with three equal vertical stripes. From the hoist (the place where the flagpole meets...
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was historically under the rule of various Islamic states and empires such as the Kanem–Bornu Empire, the Mali Empire, the Songhai Empire, and the Hausa...
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soldiers are killed in an ambush by Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin militants near Diallassagou, Mopti Region. 21 August – Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger wrote...
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Moura massacre (category Islam in Mali)
31 March 2022, in the central Malian town of Moura, Mopti Region in conflict with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb's Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin....
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Keita dynasty (redirect from List of rulers of the Mali Empire)
The Keita dynasty ruled pre-imperial and imperial Mali from the 11th century into the early 17th century. It was a Muslim dynasty, and its rulers claimed...
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Ménaka offensive (category Ménaka Region in the Mali War)
al-Qaeda-aligned Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin. The offensives took place in the Ménaka Cercle, in southeastern Mali. In the late 2010s, the Menaka Cercle...
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Ogossagou massacre (redirect from March 2019 Mali massacres)
Fulani herders in central Mali. The violence came in the aftermath of the Malian government cracking down on Islamic terror cells in the country. Two...
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The status and social roles of women in Mali have been formed by the complex interplay of a variety of traditions in ethnic communities, the rise and fall...
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senior Islamic State figure in Mali". Reuters. Retrieved 18 August 2022. BBC Africa Today: Islamic State Sahel Province fighters seize commune in Mali, BBC...
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Operation Serval (redirect from French military intervention in Mali)
operation in Mali. The aim of the operation was to oust Islamic militants from the north of Mali, who had begun a push into the center of Mali. Operation...
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Site. It managed to take control of Northern Mali, and they formed a pact with the MNLA forming the Islamic Republic of Azawad. It is designated a terrorist...
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Islam in Africa is the continent's second most widely professed faith behind Christianity. Africa was the first continent into which Islam spread from...
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2015 Bamako hotel attack (redirect from 2015 November Mali shooting)
group operating in central and southern Mali led by the radical Muslim cleric Amadou Kouffa, a strong proponent of strict Islamic law in Mali. The group draws...
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Islam (/ˈɪzlɑːm, ˈɪzlæm/ IZ-la(h)m; Arabic: ٱلْإِسْلَام, romanized: al-Islām, IPA: [alʔɪsˈlaːm], lit. 'submission [to the will of God]') is an Abrahamic...
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The music of Mali is, like that of most African nations, ethnically diverse, but one influence predominates: that of the ancient Mali Empire of the Mandinka...
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Battle of Talataye (2022) (category Terrorist incidents in Mali in 2022)
Menaka offensives of the Mali War. During the battle, militants from Islamic State in the Greater Sahara stormed Talataye, Mali, looting and burning the...
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al-Sharia (Mali) (Partisans of Islamic Law) is a radical Islamist group that operates in the Azawad region of Mali. Following the Azawad insurgency in 2012...
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Ansar Dine (category 2012 in Mali)
Ançar Dine, founded in Southern Mali in the 1990s by Chérif Ousmane Madani Haïdara, which is fundamentally opposed to militant Islamism. Ansar Dine is opposed...
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