I was looking up what's up in Libya Turkey and Russia is having some chat about the situation - will they divide the country into two I wonder, giving a little, gaining a little, they made compromises in Syria too but my attention was hijacked by Mali. They just had a coup! And we are talking about coups nowadays.

At the beginning of 2012 the Tuareg uprising broke out in Mali - pushing for independence -, and their president couldn't handle the situation so in a coup d'etat he was removed by a group from the military, calling itself the National Committee for the Restoration of Democracy and State. To resolve the escalating conflict - several armed groups joined in, even al-Qaeda affiliates - the French military had to intervene.
Next year during the presidential elections Ibrahim Boubacar Keita won by large over his opponent Soumaila Cisse, he can be styled as a "unifying figure of the fractured country" who promised zero tolerance for corruption. After his five year term he was re-elected in 2018, again defeated Cisse. However some irregularities were noticed by the opposition during the election.
Keita also became less popular. By 2020 the country got into political, economic, and security crisis. Reform came slow, and were ineffective, public services crumbled, economy halted - the corona panic-pandemic made it even worse -, corruption is running rampant in the government, in inter-ethnic violence thousands died, hundreds of thousands became refugees. However he could keep those armed groups in check which caused headaches to the international partners.
This spring saw a parliamentary elections. Two events left deep impressions in the people: Cisse was kidnapped by terrorists just three days before the first round, and after the second round the Constitutional Court declared 31 seats invalid and handed over 10 to the governing party, making it the biggest faction. Protests broke out in early June and they are going up to date with little pauses. The protesters are held together by an umbrella organization called the June 5 Movement (M5-RFP), they demanded the resignation of the president.