What you need to enter Mali with an American passport

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In the other direction, citizens of Mali cannot enter the United States on their passport. See the Mali → United States page.

With a passport from the United States, in the rest of Western Africa you can enter Cape Verde and Senegal visa-free; you need a prior authorisation or a visa on arrival for Benin, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togo; you need a visa for Ghana, Liberia and Niger; you cannot enter Burkina Faso.

A passport from the United States ranks 41 of 199 in the VisaRadar passport ranking and reaches 151 of 198 destinations without applying for a visa in advance.

Counts from the same requirements matrix behind this page's verdict, using the UN M49 subregions.