The government denies the information contained in an article published on Tuesday, July 7, 2020, on the France 24 site. The report claims that Mali has authorized relations between people of the same sex.

“The Republic of Mali solemnly affirms that it has never adopted a text authorizing relations between people of the same sex. Law N-2011-087 of December 30, 2011 on the Individuals and Family Code is explicit in the matter, in particular in its articles 280 and 289 "specifies a press release published on Tuesday.

In addition, the Malian authorities denounce with the last rigor "this lightness of France 24 which quotes a source whose information is with cantilever with the contents of the article in question".

In this regard, the national director of judicial and bucket affairs, Mohamed Mahouloud Nadjim, recalls that article 280 of the Personal and Family Code stipulates that "marriage is a public act by which a man and a woman consent between them to establish a legal union. " In addition, it is important to underline that the current penal code of Mali punishes with criminal punishment any act which is similar to this kind of union (of the same sex) as being offensive to public decency, specifies Mohamed Mahouloud Nadjim. Read more via France 24