Six months after Mali banned French funding for NGOs, how are aid groups coping?

A woman sits outside a makeshift shelter at the Faladie internally displaced people camp in Bamako in November 2022. © AFP/Ousmane Makaveli

Six months after Mali's interim authorities decided to block all French public funding for non-governmental organisations operating in the country, RFI spoke to workers on the ground about how they are managing.

Out of 294 NGOs – local and international – operating in Mali when the transitional authorities imposed the ban on 21 November 2022, around 40 were French.