Amnesty International has alleged that Mali's state armed forces and personnel from the Wagner Group committed war crimes during joint operations along the Mauritanian border between 2023 and 2025, including unlawful killings, torture and attacks on civilians.
The rights group published its report, titled 'No one is spared': War crimes committed by the Malian army and foreign allied forces along the Mauritanian border, on 29 September 2026. It documents the killings of at least 34 civilians in seven localities in Mali between June 2023 and December 2025.
The documented unlawful killings took place in the Ségou, Mopti and Timbuktu regions, Amnesty said. The report also records enforced disappearances, the pillaging and destruction of civilian property, and torture at military bases.
The allegations concern operations involving Mali's armed forces, known as FAMa, and Wagner personnel. Wagner Group was a Russian private military company that was active in Mali between late 2021 and June 2025.
Amnesty said Fulani, Arabs and Tuaregs were among the ethnic groups targeted in the documented incidents. The report does not establish the full geographic extent of the joint operations, the chain of command behind the alleged crimes, or who gave specific orders.
One incident described in the report occurred in Tin Adanda, in the Timbuktu region. Four people were killed on 12 February 2025 during a joint patrol by FAMa and Wagner, according to Amnesty.
The report also describes two drone strikes carried out by FAMa in the Timbuktu region. One struck a market in Ejdeir on 16 March 2025. The other hit a family home in Tangata in November 2025.
Those strikes killed at least 23 people in total, including at least five children, Amnesty said. The report attributes the drone strikes to FAMa and places the Tangata strike after Wagner's activity in Mali ended in June 2025.
Civilians detained by the military were tortured to death in some cases, the organisation alleged. It said survivors and detainees were subjected to simulated drowning, beatings and electric shocks. The report identifies torture as among the alleged war crimes, alongside killings and attacks on civilians.
Marceau Sivieude, Amnesty International's Regional Director for West and Central Africa, is named in connection with the report. Amnesty's findings provide a documented account of alleged violations during the period of military cooperation between FAMa and Wagner, which ended with Wagner's departure from Mali in June 2025.
The report does not give a total number of people alleged to have been tortured beyond those killed. It also does not set out any planned prosecutorial follow-up or international accountability process. No response from the Mali government to the allegations was included in the information provided.
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