In 2020 and 2021, General Asimi Goeta shaped the power of the gardener, bringing the country into military rule. The election for February 2024 was postponed due to “technical reasons”, including issues and reviews of electoral lists related to adopting a new constitution. A new date has not been decorated.
In June 2025, the National Transterity approved a bill by approving Gita for an additional five -year term, with its chairmanship expanded by the lease 2030.
Fight against Islamist rebels
One of the main justification for the coup was, which was to implement the security of the country amidst jihadi attacks. However, the scheme has not worked, said Ahmed Old Abdullah, President of Sahel Sahara Center for Security Strategies.
He said, “Not only disappeared, it has actually increased and is getting more intense. It no longer affects the north and center of the country, but so Sikaso in the south, and towards the Kayas region in the west,” he told DW.
In early June 2025, several Malian Army positions were attacked by the al-Qaeda-Varohi group to support Islam and Muslims, known as JNIM. At least 30 people were killed in an attack in a camp. In September 2024, JNIM succeeded in attacking Bamco and captured the airport for several hours. In July 2024, there was a huge fight in the city of Tinjoten near the Algeria border. Tuareg isolations suffered heavy losses on the Malian Army and the Russian -backed Wagner Group.
Fusni Oatara, Deputy Chairman of the Mali’s Transitional Parliament, Fusani Oatara, the National Conversion Council told DW that he blames the “invisible hands” for recent attacks, without offering a specific clarification. He claims that Mali is under the control of his region. “There is no doubt that the situation has improved compared to four years ago,” Heer said. “Today, we are working with complete sovereignty. The occupation of the kidal shows that there was a major change.” In November 2023, the Malian Armed Forces rebuilt the northern city Kidal from the CSP rebel coalition with the help of the mercenaries of the Wagner Group.
The Ministry of Defense has 2025 budget 485 billion CFA Franc (about 858 million dollars), which is accounting for about 20% of the national budget. Some voices feel that it is disparorated. “At some point, you have to negotiate,” a former judge and politician in Chad told DW. “If you put a large part of resources in war, you put the country in a difficult economic situation.”
Disintegration of political parties, suppression of free speech
In May 2025, Malian officials decided to dissolve all political parties. Many, Bamako University included Professor Sydilamine Bagayoko at the University of Bamako, realizing that it was a wrong step. “This political debate is the fact that the diversity of discussion and opinion so that the country can move forward,” Bagayoko. Since the gardener had around 300 political parties, many people said that this system required improvement. But search for extreme decisions, Bamco has the volume of “elimination of opposition”, according to Ulf Lessing, director of the Sahel Regional Office for the Conraddent Adenora Foundation in Bamco.
In fact, see the opposition voices to look rapidly in danger. The Mali has set opportunities to express the opinions independently of someone in the last five years, said Koning, the head-dieter of the West Africa Office of the Rosa Luxembourg Foundation (RLS) in Dakar. He says, “Goeta is becoming a dictatorial ruler. Opposition members live for fear of being arrested. The radio station has become and it is more difficult to get a license.” The country’s journalists did not feel pressure to write about the loss of army in the fight against jihadis or to write about Russian hire people, saying.
In every corner
Many pro -democracy workers have recently been expanded to Mali. According to Human Rights Watch, two opposition leaders who participated in the protest may have disappeared. Research by journalist consortium Prohibited storiesIt was found that Malian citizens have been arbitrarily arrested, abducted, and harassed in secret jails. They say that the Mali’s army and the Wagner Group are behind it. He said that government member Fousseyni OUATTARA rejected the allegations of discovery: “In Mali, our jail is open to all. Anyone can go to meet them. No one is arbitrarily arrested,” he told DW.
The educational field of the gardener is in danger, Professor Sidilamine Bagayoko says: “From 2020, we have captured many academics. As a result, other intellectuals who want to write about restrictions on freedom, or express their opinions about it.”
However, despite the concerns related to freedom of expression, there are still many supporters in the current regime, Ulf Lessing said. “I am confident that mainly the young population still supports the government because they did not want the return of the older kilers, although they were elected, they were considered corrupt and very close to France.”
Fighting corruption while the economy struggles
When it comes to corruption, some observers are carefully optimistic. “In the population survey we do annually, the response stated that they see reforms,” Schenja Bod, a resident of Mali office of Frederick Ebert Foundation in Bamco, says Schenja Bod. In 2021, around 90% of the reactions stated that they believe that corruption in the gardener was very high. According to this year’s survey, the figure has increased to 58% which was released in May. Nevertheless, regardless of the fact that search assumptions are accurate, it is clear that the government has some steps that reduce corruption – and have ensured about the cover cover by the media.
Still fighting corruption is one thing; Improvement in everyday life is another. “I am not yet watching the big economic progress that will finally translate to the situation of being better.”
Mali recently introduced unpopular new tax on mobile communication and mobile -money transfer.
Education initiative suffering
Mauhill, power scarcity remains a serious problem, and the cost of living due to the inflation associated with Russia has increased rapidly, which was in Ukraine, which has enhanced the cost of the world. “Mali imports everything from Mali Gasoline to Grains, for the Conraddent Adenora Foundation in Bamco, said,” Mali Gasoline imports everything, it is very much dependent on the world market and has no access to the coast. “
At the same time, Lessing as a specialist discovery says that the western countries including France are suspending their work in Mali because Russia has included more. Shift education is negative affecting initiatives.
Lessing said that he spoke with the Malian participants at an education conference in Tunisia, who told him that Althog is an initiative and plans, some are applicable.
Reliou Kaubakin and Etienne Gatanazi contrary to this article. It was edited by Sarah Hukal.
