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BAMAKO (Reuters) -Mali's northern Tuareg rebels said they had killed and injured dozens of soldiers and Wagner mercenaries in two days of fighting near the Algerian border, after the army said it ...
BAMAKO (Reuters) -Mali's military reported deadly clashes on Tuesday with northern Tuareg rebels, who said they briefly seized control of a military camp in the town of Bourem in a further sign of ...
The Mali War [c] is an ongoing conflict that started in January 2012 between the northern and southern parts of Mali in Africa. On 16 January 2012, several insurgent groups began fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, which they called Azawad .
On September 7, 2023, at least 154 civilians and fifteen Malian soldiers were killed when Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) militants simultaneously attacked a Malian military camp at Bamba and the civilian boat Tombouctou on the Niger River near the village of Banikane, Gourma-Rharous.
Mali's military rulers, who consolidated power over two coups in 2020 and 2021, severed ties with former colonial power France and kicked out its troops. In June, it ordered the 13,000-strong ...
The attacks began in the early morning of 17 September 2024 at around 05:00, [7] when gunmen attacked several locations across Bamako including the Banankabougou neighbourhood, [4] the Faladie military police school [8] housing elite units of the Malian gendarmerie [9] in the southeast of Bamako, and the nearby military airport, [4] which the JNIM claimed to have fully taken. [2]
Mali's demand for the departure of U.N. peacekeepers heralded a sudden end to a decade-long mission that has struggled to protect civilians and its own troops, raising fears the country could ...
According to the pro-Russian news outlet African Initiative, the Wagner Group suffered at least 25 deaths, making the battle their most significant loss in Mali since their deployment in 2021 [10] and one of the deadliest attacks on Russian personnel in Africa since 2017.