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Well, Mali is a piss poor country at behind God's back. It was in the news tho, just didn't reach headlines for that reason. Also maybe some powers that be don't want to make it too loud.
I got my info from Al Jazeera mostly but I saw other articles from big news agencies when I did some duckduckgoing.
Also it turns out Mali has an tiny army. The size of the country is quite large (but most of it is desert), the population is about the reach 20 million, which isn't that high, but their army personnel is somewhere between 7 and 10 thousand. The 7000 data is kinda old and from Wikipedia, the other figure I got from the website called "Global Firepower" which offers somewhat up to date rankings of the armies of the world.
Despite this number about 13% of their GDP goes into the military.
This force isn't homogeneous, about half of it regular army, the other half is national guards, and militias. Apparently they had to take in the Tuareg paramilitaries as well to appease them.
Gonna try to dig up more.