2023-09-17 21:32:35
By Le Figaro with AFP
Published yesterday at 11:32 p.m., Updated yesterday at 11:32 p.m.
A Malian army patrol. MICHELE CATTANI / AFP
A spokesperson for the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), an alliance of separatist groups dominated by the Tuaregs, claimed responsibility for the attack.
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Attack claimed by an alliance of separatist groups
A second local elected official confirmed the attack on two camps, specifying that there were deaths but without being able to indicate the number. Almou Ag Mohamed, a spokesperson for the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), an alliance of separatist groups dominated by the Tuaregs, claimed responsibility for the attack. “We attacked and took control of the two military camps in the town of Léré this Sunday. The camps are under our control“, he declared, specifying: “We shot down an army plane“. Malian officials did not name the attackers.
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But such an operation by armed groups once once more confirms the failure of the peace agreement signed in 2015 by an alliance of predominantly Tuareg armed groups who entered into rebellion once morest the central state in 2012, by the government and by loyalist armed groups. On Tuesday, these same armed groups launched an offensive once morest the garrison town of Bourem, which the army said it had repelled. The adversaries gave different accounts of the events, but both reported dozens of deaths.
Rivalries have intensified in recent weeks between the multitude of armed actors vying for control of this region of northern Mali: jihadist groups once morest the Malian army, jihadist groups among themselves, Tuareg armed groups once morest jihadists, and Tuareg groups facing the Malian army. This escalation coincides with a security reconfiguration in the north following the departure of the French anti-jihadist force in 2022 and that, in progress, of the UN mission (Minusma), both pushed towards the exit by the junta.
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