# Opposition leaders disappeared after protests against political-party dissolution

Date: 2025

Opposition politicians Abba Alhassane and El Bachir Thiam disappeared after participating in resistance to the junta's effort to dismantle multiparty politics; Human Rights Watch said witnesses described Alhassane being taken by masked men identifying themselves as gendarmes, while authorities provided no information on either man's whereabouts.

## Drivers

- Goïta junta and AES break: https://factrail.ai/drivers/goita-junta-and-aes-break

## Sources

- https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/05/09/mali-opposition-politicians-feared-forcibly-disappeared
- https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/malis-military-rulers-formally-dissolve-political-parties-2025-05-13/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mali-opposition-leaders-disappeared-2025