A first official visit to Mali by Senegal's new President Bassirou Diomaye Faye induced no hint at compromise over Bamako's proclaimed departure from Ecowas with foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop dismissively commenting: ‘We can't be in organisations that we don't control' (AC Vol 65 No 11 Faye's diplomatic rounds)...

Links with the Mali junta firmed when Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian visited Bamako in August 2022 and he met his Malian counterpart Abdoulaye Diop again in New York in September this year at the UN General Assembly...

The UN's Mission multidimensionnelle intégrée des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation au Mali (Minusma) has just six months to shut down its operation after Bamako's Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop called on 16 June for its withdrawal 'without delay' (AC Vol 63 No 22 Bamako's wolf warrior diplomacy backfires)...

The Security Council had no choice but to vote unanimously for Resolution 2690 ending the mandate of the Mission multidimensionnelle intégrée des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation au Mali (Minusma) after foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop announced that the government was withdrawing its host country consent...

After accusing France of supporting Islamist militia groups at a UN Security Council meeting on 18 October Bamako's foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop dialled down the rhetoric five days later at the Dakar Security Forum insisting Mali could work with any partner including Paris if they didn't dictate policy...

Its combative Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop even wrote to the UN Security Council claiming France was supplying terrorist groups...

Mali's foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop has reportedly sought to justify this as a means of pressuring leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) to soften sanctions...

In New York this week foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop devoted more time to complaining about France's refusal to allow the Malian army into the then newly liberated Touareg town of Kidal back in 2013 than with the urgent challenges confronting his country today...

On 4 May Mali's foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop was in Lomé to ask Togo to act as a facilitator in relations with the international community – potentially a means of exploring the scope for an understanding with Ecowas without being seen to cede ground to the bloc's official mediator Goodluck Jonathan...

Mauritanians have been murdered in at least two incidents forcing Bamako's foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop into a placatory dash to Nouakchott to promise a joint enquiry and security patrols in western border areas...