Incumbents

• President: Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta: Resigned August 19.^[1][2]
• Prime Minister: Boubou Cissé: Resigned August 19.^[1]
• President of the National Assembly: Issaka Sidibé: Parliament dissolved August 19.^[1]
• National Committee for the Salvation of the People: Established August 19.^[1]
  • 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.^[2]
• March 29 – First round of the 2020 Malian parliamentary election^[3]

April

• April 6 – Bamba attack.^{[citation needed]}
• April 19 – 2nd round of the 2020 Malian parliamentary election.^[4]
• April 24 – Mopti attacks.^{[citation needed]}
• April 30 – The Constitutional Court overturns election results for 31 seats and gives Rally for Mali an extra ten seats in Parliament.^[2]

May

• May 10 – Three Chadian peacekeepers with MINUSMA were killed, and four wounded, in a roadside bomb attack in Aguelhok.^[5]
• May 23 – Korité, public holiday^[6][7]
• May 26 – Twenty people were killed and at least 11 injured when a minibus traveling between Bamako and Narena collided with a truck.^[8]
• May 30 – Opposition parties establish the Mouvement du 5 juin - Rassemblement des forces patriotiques (in French) (June 5 Movement - Rally of Patriotic Forces).^[2]

June

• June 3 – Battle of Talahandak.^{[citation needed]}
• June 5 – Thousands led by Mahmoud Dicko protest under the banner of the June 5 Movement.^[2]
• June 11 – Boubou Cisse is reappointed Prime Minister and charged with forming a new government.^[2]
• June 19 – Tens of thousands of Malians protested in Bamako to demand the resignation of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita—see 2020 Malian protests.^[9]
• June 20 – ECOWAS called for new elections to be held due to disputes about the legitimacy of the 2020 Malian parliamentary election.^[9]

July

• July 5 – President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita meets with imam Mahmoud Dicko, leader of the June 5 protest movement.^[10]
• 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.^[11][2]
• July 18 – The opposition rejects a new government of national unity proposed by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan,^[12]
• July 27 – ECOWAS calls for a unity government and warns of sanctions.^[2]

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.^[2]
• August 11 – Police use tear gas and water cannons to disperse crowds in Independence Square after protests are renewed.^[13]
• August 12 – The June 5 Movement announces daily protests.^[2]
• 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.^[14]
  • 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.^[15][16]
• 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.^[2]
• 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.^[17]

September

• September 7 – ECOWAS renews calls for a quick return to civilian rule.^[18]
• 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.^[19]
• 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.^[20]
• September 12 – The CNSP agrees to an 18-month political transition period.^[21]
• September 15 – Deadline established by ECOWAS to name a civilian government for a one-year transition to free elections.^[22]

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.^[23]
• October 8 - Sophie Pétronin and Soumaïla Cissé were released from captivity by jihadist militants.^[24] Two Italian nationals, Nicola Chiacchio and Pier Luigi Maccalli, were also reported released.^[24]
• 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.^[25]

December

• December 23 – United Nations investigators say both the military and rebel groups have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity since 2012.^[26]
• December 29 – Three French soldiers are killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) in Mopti Region.^[27]

Scheduled events

• October 29 – Prophet's birthday^[6]
• November 5 – Baptism of the Prophet^[6]
• December 25 – Christmas Day^[6]

Deaths

• February 14 – Adama Kouyaté, photographer (b. 1928).^[28]
• July 28 – Zou Diarra, musician (b. 1960).^{[citation needed]}
• September 15 – Moussa Traoré, military officer and politician, former President of Mali (b. 1936).^[29]
• November 10 – Amadou Toumani Touré, former President of Mali (b. 1948).^[30]
• December 25 – Soumaila Cissé, 71, politician; COVID-19.^[31]