Mali’s National Transitional Council approved the ratification of Ordinance No. 2026-021/PT-RM on October 22, with 119 votes. The ordinance, dated August 13, modifies the Persons and Family Code to extend the specific sanction of deprivation of nationality beyond naturalized citizens to Malians by origin. APA reported the parliamentary action on October 23. (fr.apanews.net)
The reform covers conduct including allegiance to another state, cooperation with organizations designated hostile, secessionist or terrorist, and involvement in terrorist activity. It retains an important limitation: deprivation cannot be imposed if it would leave the individual stateless. (eng.madar.mr)
Ratification is not the reform’s starting date
The government adopted the draft ordinance on July 17, and the ordinance was formalized on August 13. APA explained that the October vote ratified an already operative measure. It also noted that Malian law previously contained other mechanisms through which a Malian by origin could lose nationality; the principal change concerns extension of the particular deprivation regime formerly reserved for naturalized citizens. (fr.apanews.net)
The development is therefore significant but narrower than headlines suggesting Mali has only now acquired any power to remove the nationality of citizens by birth. No individual citizenship-revocation decision resulting from this parliamentary vote was established in the reporting reviewed. (fr.apanews.net)