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Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), an al-Qaeda affiliate, has emerged as the most powerful militant force in West Africa, now commanding up to 6,000 fighters and staging coordinated, high-impact attacks across the Sahel, experts warn. According new analysis titled ‘JNIM Expanding Geographic Reach and Staging Coordinated Attacks in the Sahel’, JNIM’s recent assaults in Timbuktu […]
Mali’s military government has initiated an investigation into the alleged ‘cold execution’ of at least 24 civilians, including women and children, in the volatile northern part of the Sahel country. The accusations were made by the Tuareg separatist group, the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), which is battling the Malian government in the same region. According […]
Ukraine has denied allegations that it had supplied dangerous chemical weapons to armed groups in Mali, saying that these false accusations were spread by Russian propagandists attempting to cover up crimes committed by Wagner Group in Africa. According to a recent report in Sputnik, armed groups in Mali recently received a very dangerous chemical weapon […]
Eight Tuareg rebel leaders have reportedly been killed by drone strikes on a town in Mali’s north that was carried out by the country’s military regime at a time when the Tuareg factions were discussing how to form a united military and political structure. “Several synchronized drone strikes martyred some Azawad leaders on 1 December […]
Mali rulers have axed the 2015 Algiers Agreement signed by the various warring parties in the West African country, dealing another hard blow to the Algerian diplomacy which is suffering setback after setback. In a statement read Thursday on state television, Mali’s government spokesperson Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga said it was no longer possible to continue […]
Mali has launched an investigation into several ethnic separatists and al-Qaida-linked jihadist leaders for terrorism and money laundering, which also includes a probe into the Tuareg rebel leaders who signed a peace agreement in 2015 and now accuse the government of failing to comply with it. The instructions issued by Mali’s judiciary this week show […]
Separatist rebels in northern Mali have claimed to have taken over a camp in the strategic town of Kidal immediately after it was evacuated by the UN peacekeeping mission MINUSMA, a significant development in an ongoing battle for territory. The Tuareg-dominated alliance of armed groups, known as the Permanent Strategic Framework (CSP), which had agreed […]
The UN stabilization mission in Mali known as MINUSMA said Monday October 16 it pulled out from two camps in the Kidal region. “In a climate of high tension, (the mission) has begun the process of withdrawing from its camps in the Kidal region, starting with Tessalit and Aguelhok”, the mission said in a statement. […]
The Malian army is deploying towards a northern separatist rebel stronghold in the Kidal region in a high-risk operation which could foreshadow a major confrontation and become a turning point after a decade of conflict. A large convoy of the Malian army left Gao on Monday (2 October) and was reportedly headed to the localities […]
In Mali, gunmen on motorbikes have killed more than 30 Tuareg civilians this week in northern Mali, Reuters reported. According to the report, the identity of the assailants was unknown, but disputes between the nomadic Tuareg and herder Fulani and displaced thousands over the past year. In the central-eastern town of Menaka, mayor NanoutKotia told […]