2023 in Mali

• President: Assimi Goïta
• Prime Minister: Choguel Kokalla Maïga
• National Committee for the Salvation of the People:
  • Chairman: Colonel Assimi Goïta
  • Spokesman: Colonel-Major Ismaël Wagué

Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Mali and Mali War

• January 2 – Two firefighters and three civilians are killed in an armed attack by Islamist insurgents along a highway between Bamako and Ségou.[1]
• January 6 – Interim president Assimi Goïta pardons 49 Ivorian soldiers who were arrested in July and convicted of "undermining state security".[2]
• February 24 – Twelve people are killed after gunmen attack a village in central Mali.[3]
• June 13 – Fifteen people are killed and several others are injured when two passenger buses collide with a truck between Fana and Konobougou.[4]
• June 18 – 2023 Malian constitutional referendum: Malians head to the polls to vote on a referendum that, among other things, would enhance the powers of the President.[5]
• June 24 – Malians approve amendments to the constitution. Under the changes, the president has the right to hire and fire the prime minister. The constitutional changes also designate Mali as a secular state.[6]
• September 7 – September 2023 Mali attacks
  • In Gourma-Rharous Cercle, jihadists fire rockets at a Comanav vessel on the Niger River.
  • Islamist militants attack a military camp in northeast Mali. The military confirms the death toll of the combined incidents to be 63 in total, including 15 troops and 49 civilians.[7]
• September 8 – September 2023 Mali attacks: Four suicide bombers attack a Malian military base in Bamba, Gao Region, killing an unknown number of people.[8]
• September 16: The military governments of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso sign a mutual defence pact named the Alliance of Sahel States in case of internal rebellion or external military aggression.[9]
• September 23: An Ilyushin Il-76 military transport plane reportedly linked to the Wagner Group crashed in Gao International Airport after exceeding the runway.[10]
• October 16: The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali, MINUSMA, initiates withdrawal from two camps in Aguelhok and Tessalit, Kidal Region.[11]