Madar (Bamako) - Malian authorities have drawn up an emergency humanitarian response plan worth nearly 228 million CFA francs to care for people turned back from gold-mining sites in Guinea who have arrived in Mali, according to a statement from the communication network of the Ministry of Health and Social Development published on Saturday, 7 November 2026.
The minister, Colonel-Major Dr Assa Badiallo Toure, chaired an emergency meeting with humanitarian actors on Friday, 6 November, after visiting the injured being treated at Gabriel-Toure University Hospital and the Commune IV reference health centre in Bamako. The statement did not say how many people were injured.
According to an initial assessment presented by the national director of social development, several tens of thousands of people, mostly from Burkina Faso, have arrived in Mali following the removal operations in Guinea. The figures are provisional and are being refined through ongoing identification and registration.
The plan covers shelter, food, health, protection and transport. First measures include 50 tents, hot meals and medical supplies. The World Health Organization (WHO) handed the minister a large batch of medicines, and humanitarian partners said they were ready to support the government. Joint site visits are planned for next week.
At a press briefing on the evening of Thursday, 5 November, Security and Civil Protection Minister Gen. Daoud Mohamedine said nearly 80,000 people of six nationalities had crossed the border at Kouremale since 2 November, Studio Tamani reported. The health minister reported four deaths linked to the situation, without giving their causes.
The measures are part of the response to the Siguiri gold expulsions crisis, triggered by Guinea's ban on unregulated gold mining in the region, which sent tens of thousands of foreign nationals towards Mali and then Burkina Faso.
