“The attacks have undermined the junta’s claims that its new foreign partnerships and increased military effort have turned the tide against the jihadists.”
Who is funding and equipping these jihadists that are more powerful than the governments of Africa? Why is no one looking into that?
“At least 20 killed in Mali attacks blamed on jihadists: sources,” AFP, December 21, 2024:
At least 20 people were killed in attacks on Friday (December 20, 2024) on villages in central Mali that have been the target of jihadist groups, local officials and sources said Saturday.
“Six villages in the region of Bandiagara were attacked yesterday (Friday) by jihadists. Grain silos were burned, the local populations fled. There were also about 20 dead,” a local elected official who asked not to be named told AFP.
A Mali security official told AFP that five villages in Bandiagara were attacked. “We counted 21 dead and many injured,” the official added.
Bocary Guindo, a representative of a local youth association, said there had been at least 22 deaths in four villages and two other villages had been burned.
Mali since 2012 has faced attacks from groups linked to Al-Qaeda and Islamic State, as well as by separatist movements and criminal gangs. Last weekend seven people were killed during attacks in the centre of the country.
In September, jihadists attacked a police academy and stormed the military airport in Bamako, the first attack in the Malian capital since 2016….
The attacks have undermined the junta’s claims that its new foreign partnerships and increased military effort have turned the tide against the jihadists. Various rights groups have also cited abuses committed against civilians by the army and its Russian allies.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I looked up Wiki (I’m open to it being wrong). Mali is 95% muslim, 2.35% Christian and the rest are local tribal religions, like Dogon. How exactly are they finding infidels to massacre, when they are a statistical asterisk?