Drug and firearms law in Mali: statutes on record and in force

Mali, in Africa, is party to all four of the instruments tracked here, the last of them since 2008. It appears on neither FATF list. Its confirmed instrument on record is the Loi No.01-078 du 18 juillet 2001 portant sur le Contrôle des Drogues et des Précurseurs of 2001. Nothing below is asserted without the document it came from being named alongside it.

Tile cartogram of the covered jurisdictions with Mali picked out — Fig. — Mali in the covered set of 106 source and transit jurisdictions.

International framework

Mali is bound by all four instruments this dataset tracks, the earliest from 1995 and the most recent from 2008.

Instrument	Adopted	Ratified or acceded	Depositary reference
1988 Convention	1988	31 Oct 1995	Chapter VI-19
UNTOC	2000	12 Apr 2002	Chapter XVIII-12
UNCAC	2003	18 Apr 2008	Chapter XVIII-14
Firearms Protocol	2001	3 May 2002	Chapter XVIII-12-c

What each instrument obliges a party to do is set out once, per instrument, in the conventions reference. The dates above are what is specific to Mali: they are the points from which each obligation began to bind, taken from the depositary's own status tables.

National legislation

The following instruments have been confirmed against a citable national source. Titles are given as enacted and are not translated.

Loi No.01-078 du 18 juillet 2001 portant sur le Contrôle des Drogues et des Précurseurs (No. 01-078) — A principal instrument in its own right, confirmed on the register named below; its subject matter is not stated on the face of its title. Confirmed against the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.

Enforcement authorities

One body is named in the record for Mali, each confirmed on Mali's own government domain. A named body is not the same as an operative one, but it establishes where the mandate sits — and a mandate no institution holds is the gap that treaty coverage cannot close.

Body	Function	Confirmed on
Douanes du Mali	named in the legislation	douanes.gouv.ml

Ratification sequence

The dates below are worth reading as a sequence rather than as a set. Mali came to these instruments over 13 years, beginning with the 1988 Convention in 1995 and ending with the UNCAC in 2008. Measured against each instrument's own adoption, the shortest gap was the Firearms Protocol at 1 year, the longest the 1988 Convention at 7.

Mali became a party to the 1988 Convention in 1995, 7 years after it was adopted — slower than the median lag of 5 years across this dataset.

What sat in the gaps between them is the less obvious half of the record. For the 7 years between 1995 and 2002, Mali was bound by the 1988 Convention but not yet by the UNTOC, the Firearms Protocol or the UNCAC. For the 6 years between 2002 and 2008, Mali was bound by the 1988 Convention, the UNTOC and the Firearms Protocol but not yet by the UNCAC. Nothing in the later instruments reaches back into that window, which is why a complete position today says little about a case from then.

On coverage, Mali is one of 81 jurisdiction s here party to 4 of the four, against 81 party to all four. Of the 53 Africa jurisdictions in this dataset, 6 sit under increased monitoring at present.

Financial-crime monitoring

As of the FATF plenary statements of 2026-06-19, Mali is recorded as Not listed . A jurisdiction can enter or leave either list at any plenary, so this line is dated rather than settled. How the plenary reaches these decisions is covered on the FATF grey list tracker.

Questions about drug and firearms law in Mali

Which drug-control conventions has Mali ratified?

All four: the 1988 Convention on 31 Oct 1995, the UNTOC on 12 Apr 2002, the UNCAC on 18 Apr 2008, the Firearms Protocol on 3 May 2002.

Is Mali on the FATF grey list?

No. Mali appears on neither the increased-monitoring list nor the call-for-action list in the FATF statements of 19 June 2026.

What national drug legislation is on record for Mali?

Loi No.01-078 du 18 juillet 2001 portant sur le Contrôle des Drogues et des Précurseurs (No. 01-078), confirmed against the UNODC legal library.

Which register confirms the legislation on this page?

Each instrument names its own. For Mali that is the UNODC legal library. Each link resolves to the register's own copy, not to a summary of it.

What is source tier A, and why is this record in it?

Tier A means a national instrument has been confirmed against an official register — for Mali, 1 of them. The treaty dates and the listing status are separately sourced, so all three layers of this record carry a citation.

Why does the ratification date matter?

The date is the point from which the obligations bind. Mali's earliest of these commitments dates from 1995, its most recent from 2008; the gap between them is a rough measure of how long the framework took to assemble.

Sources

Ratification dates: United Nations Treaty Collection, depositary status tables (chapters VI-19, XVIII-12, XVIII-14, XVIII-12-c). Checked 2026-07-29.
Listing status: FATF, Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring and High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action, 2026-06-19.
Loi No.01-078 du 18 juillet 2001 portant sur le Contrôle des Drogues et des Précurseurs: the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.