2024-08-27 16:14:25
Mali’s army is divided. Monday August 26, he said that his drones were targeted “Terrorist Sites” and killed “surrounding the warring parties” in the air service that led on Sunday, August 25, against the city of Tinzaouatene (in the north of the country). He explained that“An anti-terrorist mission made it possible to find and identify transport vehicles loaded with military equipment, carefully kept in the yard of the contract in Tinzaouatène.”
So there’s no reason to live through this terrorist activity, you make it clear. Better yet, we should be happy about it since it has been proven, as reported by the pro-government media. Mali Web.netthat the Malian Army (Fama) effectively continues its mission of defending the territorial integrity of Mali and fighting terrorism in all its forms.
Wagner’s heaviest defeat was in Mali
Details that contradict the incredible information that has been circulating since Sunday on these attacks in Tinzaouatene. According to many sources, they killed around twenty civilians, including eleven children. ” These first targeted a pharmacy, then other attacks followed, targeting gatherings of people near the initial damage.explained the spokesman for the Tuareg separatists, Mohamed Elmaouloud Ramadane.
It is in this border area with Algeria that the Tuareg separatists associated with the jihadists associated with Al-Qaeda (GSIM) retreated after the capture of the city of Kidal by Fama and their Russian ally Wagner, on November 14 2023. An area which also escaped from the control of Bamako and in which the army of Mali and Wagner suffered their biggest setback since their alliance 2021 Between July 25 and 27, 2024, their column that left Tessalit for Tinzaouatene through Tuareg rebels and GSIM. Result? Bamako admitted a major defeat, without saying more. The separatists claimed at least 84 Russians and 47 Malian soldiers, spreading images of the killings on social networks.
Assemble the drones
Since then, Bamako has tried to regain the initiative by targeting this region with military drone strikes. In early August, he had already attacked Tinzaouatène, killing many civilians, including foreign gold miners. The separatists are talking about “Many deaths, mainly Hausas of Niger and Chadians”. This task, explained the Malian army, was carried out “in coordination with the forces of Burkina Faso”, “in accordance with the agreement between the Member States” of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) and “In application of collective security and mutual aid mechanism”.
This alliance, established in July, brings together Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, three countries ravaged by non-state armed groups that broke with France in favor of Russia and Turkey, a major supplier of drones to African troops. In January, Bamako received from Ankara at least six of these Bayraktar TB2 drones, which were used by Kyiv against the Russians at the beginning of the war in Ukraine.
The debate over the tragic events of Sunday in Tinzaouatene has not changed in Bamako’s approach to military drones in the north of the country. Tuesday August 27, Tuareg separatists announced the death of seven of their own, the day before a new drone strike by the Malian army.
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