# 2020 in Mali
## Incumbents

* President: Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta: Resigned August 19.
* Prime Minister: Boubou Cissé: Resigned August 19.
* President of the National Assembly: Issaka Sidibé: Parliament dissolved August 19.
* National Committee for the Salvation of the People: Established August 19.
** Chairman: Colonel Assimi Goïta
** Spokesman: Colonel-Major Ismaël Wagué

## Events
### March

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

### April

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

### May

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

### June

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

### July

* July 5 – President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita meets with imam Mahmoud Dicko, leader of the June 5 protest movement.
* 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.
* July 18 – The opposition rejects a new government of national unity proposed by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan,
* July 27 – ECOWAS calls for a unity government and warns of sanctions.

### August

* 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.
* August 11 – Police use tear gas and water cannons to disperse crowds in Independence Square after protests are renewed.
* August 12 – The June 5 Movement announces daily protests.
* 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.
** 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.
* 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.
* 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.

### September

* September 7 – ECOWAS renews calls for a quick return to civilian rule.
* 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.
* 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.
* September 12 – The CNSP agrees to an 18-month political transition period.
* September 15 – Deadline established by ECOWAS to name a civilian government for a one-year transition to free elections.

### October

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

### November

* November 13 – French forces kill jihadist leader Ba Ag Moussa near Ménaka Cercle.

### December

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

### Scheduled events

* October 29 – Prophet's birthday
* November 5 – Baptism of the Prophet
* December 25 – Christmas Day

## Deaths

* February 14 – Adama Kouyaté, photographer (b. 1928).
* July 28 – Zou Diarra, musician (b. 1960).
* September 15 – Moussa Traoré, military officer and politician, former President of Mali (b. 1936).
* November 10 – Amadou Toumani Touré, former President of Mali (b. 1948).
* December 25 – Soumaila Cissé, 71, politician; COVID-19.