- State affiliation · Mali
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
State affiliation: Mali.
Vigil category device — drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role. Not an official insignia.
In brief
Mali's special-forces battalion, created by decree on 16 May 2018 with its own commando-training centres and recruited across the services — the state's one special-operations formation, tasked on paper with special operations, counterterrorism, intelligence and the protection of state figures, and whose role in the 2020 and 2021 coups and the 2023–2026 campaigns is reported rather than documented.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination reported
- Record state
- Stub
About this record
Stub — a structured placeholder meeting the public-stub threshold: name, place in the force tree, broad role, and a dated status. A full profile follows source review.
Lineage & institutional history
Formal parent institution: Created by decree on 16 May 2018 under the armed forces' general staff; filed under the army because its personnel and its operations are the army's, and the general staff has no record in this atlas.
Assessed as of — 2026-06 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28
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