Madar (Bamako) - Mali's government has dissolved the municipal council of Commune I in the District of Bamako over "serious administrative management faults", mostly involving land, according to the communique of the Council of Ministers held on Friday, 23 October 2026 at Koulouba Palace under transitional president Gen. Assimi Goita, published by the official AMAP news agency.
Territorial Administration and Decentralisation Minister Brig. Gen. Issa Oumane Coulibaly told the council that the municipal body had "for some time" shown dysfunctions and breaches of the law, including irregular plot divisions or fraudulent recognition of land rights, issuing "residential land notifications", irregular management of ordinary and long-term leases, and charging bonuses on marriage ceremony fees.
A request for an explanation had been sent to the council, which was dissolved "to put an end to the abuses observed" under the territorial authorities code of 13 March 2023. The code allows a municipal council to be suspended or dissolved after it has been able to submit written explanations, through the mayor, to the state's representative.
The council also adopted the bill settling the 2025 state budget: revenue collected reached 2,836.707 billion CFA francs against a forecast of 2,739.697 billion, a 103.54% rate, while spending reached 3,091.253 billion against 3,279.886 billion planned, or 94.25%. The bill goes to the National Transitional Council.
A plot of about 212 hectares at Gongasso, in the Sikasso circle, was allocated to the energy and water ministry for a 100-megawatt-peak solar plant with 100 megawatt-hours of storage, and works on an agro-industrial park at Bancoumana were declared of public utility.
Ministers were also briefed on Mali's participation in the AES ministerial steering committee in Ouagadougou on 16 October, which adopted a draft AES-ECOWAS cooperation framework agreement and a negotiation roadmap, and in the first AES-ECOWAS ministerial dialogue session in Dakar on 17 October. Mali was also chosen to chair the Volta Basin Authority's council of ministers for two years, and confirmed dengue cases rose compared with the previous week.
