Bamako hospitals treat 413 injured and sick people turned back from Guinea
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Mali Actu
Illustrative image · Iqbal farooz · Pexels · Licence PexelsBamako health facilities have treated 413 injured and sick people among those turned back from Guinea, while six deaths were reported in Kouremalé. CECOGEC counted about 100,000 people in Bamako and nearly 60,000 at the border on 7 November 2026, according to its statement.
Bamako health facilities have treated 413 injured and sick people among those turned back from Guinea, while six deaths were recorded in Kouremalé, at the Malian border, as of 7 November 2026. The figures are contained in a statement by the Crisis Coordination and Management Centre (CECOGEC), headed by fire service colonel Issa Raoul Dana Dabo.
The Ministry of Health and Social Development said on 6 November that more than 130 patients had already been received and treated in Bamako within 72 hours under the White Plan. People authorised to leave after recovering were accompanied to reception sites, according to CECOGEC.
To ease congestion in Bamako and the border area, the Malian authorities developed and secured an emergency site in Quinzinbougou to receive people turned back. Mali and Burkina Faso had also agreed on 4 November on arrangements for the reception, assistance and return of Burkinabè nationals turned back from Guinea, according to the local press.
On 5 November, 47 Burkinabè buses and two Malian buses had evacuated nearly 3,430 people. On 6 November, Mali mobilised 74 trucks and 24 buses to transport about 15,000 people, according to CECOGEC.
The influx into Bamako follows the mass arrivals of people turned back from Guinea reported since 5 November. Nearly 80,000 people enter Mali from Guinea on 6 November, before Mali recorded 160,000 arrivals, including 60,000 in Kouremalé, on 7 November. Six deaths among 160,000 people turned back from Guinea in Mali had then been reported.
