“Army Operations in Mali: Tracking and Neutralizing Terrorist Groups”

2023-05-24 08:47:41

According to the military hierarchy, priorities focused on monitoring and consolidating intelligence on the location of highly mobile terrorist groups, their networks and their accomplices both in urban areas and in forests. It should also be noted the prompt reaction of the FAMa once morest terrorist groups on the road to KitaDiéma, Mourdiah-Nara, improvised explosive devices, the attack once morest soft targets in the region of Sikasso, Nara and Ségou.

In the eastern theater of the operation, the Army reports that the priorities focused on consolidating the resumption of the initiative both in the air and on the ground. “Surveillance flights, population reassurance and territorial control in the Kidal, Gao and Ménaka region as well as ground offensive reconnaissance, mainly in the Ménaka and Gao region, as well as escorts and civil-military food distribution actions have been carried out successfully”, informs the document.

In the Center theater of the Maliko operation, according to the same source, the major action was the professional reaction of the FAMa during the foiled attack on Sévaré airport, the destruction of multiple logistics plots by air strikes, offensive reconnaissance, airborne operations and seizures of important terrorist logistics and support to populations.

The Army deplores, for its part, 09 combat deaths and some damaged war materials. The terrorists recorded heavy losses: “Destruction of 13 terrorist logistics plots, 167 terrorists neutralized, 32 terrorists arrested, 09 vehicles and 148 motorcycles destroyed and recovered”, specifies the press release. In addition to this lot, there are significant quantities of IED manufacturing equipment and ammunition of all calibers recovered, 27 IEDs destroyed. As well as 850 motorcycles, 05 trucks, 01 tank carrier, 05 chargers and large quantities of food and blankets seized, 09 repentant terrorists and 15 waiting to be collected.

The military hierarchy indicates that the terrorists in rout retain nuisance capabilities mainly oriented towards pressure on populations, the use of IEDs and attacks once morest soft targets. And confirms the harmfulness of terrorist groups through the continued use of child soldiers in combat.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces salutes the support, commitment, collaboration and courage of the populations with the FAMa and reassures that the FAMa will continue the search for and destruction of terrorists in strict compliance with Humanitarian Law and International Humanitarian Law. .

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