After four years of sustained reforms and international evaluations, Mali has been removed from the Gafi grey list. The country is being praised for its progress in the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism

At the end of the plenary session held in Strasbourg on 13 June 2025, Mali was officially removed from the “grey list” of the Financial Action Task Force (GAFI ). This decision follows a compliance process that began in 2021, marked by the implementation of 27 corrective actions, the production of ten assessment reports, and the hosting of an international inspection mission in Bamako at the end of April last year. The country was added to the FATF grey list in June 2021. It was among the countries considered to be failing in the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism. This registration, which involved reinforced surveillance and periodic reporting obligations, was decided on the basis of several shortcomings identified during the mutual evaluation conducted by the regional authorities. The country then adopted a 27-step action plan, the implementation of which was closely monitored by the FATF Cooperation Review Group (International Cooperation Review Group)

In fact, from 28 to 30 April 2025, a joint delegation from GAFI and from the Africa Middle East Group stayed in Bamako for an on-site evaluation. She met with teams from the Ministry of Economy and Finance, Justice, Security, Civil Protection and the National Financial Information Processing Unit (CENTIF). This mission made it possible to observe the effective compliance of several key mechanisms, in particular in terms of monitoring suspicious transactions, regulating the informal financial sector and judicial cooperation

Indeed, the removal of Mali from the grey list is a recognition of the sustained efforts carried out under the coordination of the National Commission to Combat Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism (CONAC-LBC/FT), with the technical support of GIABA (Intergovernmental Action Group against money laundering in West Africa) and from several donors, including the World Bank and the European Union