Two vehicles of the security forces were set on fire and two others, with customized machine guns, fell into the hands of the perpetrators of the attack, which was carried out in Kuala, the gendarmerie announced. Two of the attackers were killed and others captured, he added, without giving a number.
Four policemen were killed and three others were wounded on Sunday in an ambush in the western part of Mali, a Sahel country facing deadly action by jihadist groups, authorities said.
Two vehicles of the security forces were set on fire and two others, with customized machine guns, fell into the hands of the perpetrators of the attack, which was carried out in Kuala, the gendarmerie announced. Two of the attackers were killed and others captured, he added, without giving a number.
The gendarmerie did not specify to which organization it attributed the attack. The gendarmes, as well as members of the military, foreign forces and any representative of the state are targets of the jihadists.
Mali has been experiencing since 2012 the spread of the jihadist threat and a multidimensional crisis — political, economic, humanitarian. The violence, starting in the north, spread to the central and eastern parts of the country and to the neighboring states of Burkina Faso and Niger. It is now sweeping western sectors, while spreading southwards, troubling Mali’s other neighbours, especially Senegal.
The military junta, in power in Mali since 2020, ended Bamako’s alliance with France and its Western partners and brought in Russians, whom it describes as military trainers, to help it fight jihadists. He says he has forced organizations that pledge allegiance to either al-Qaeda or the Islamic State to go on the defensive.
Prime Minister Sokel Kokala Maiga said last week that there was no longer any area of ​​the territory where the army could not go; by this stage, authorities were admitting that two-thirds of the territory was outside state control.
This claim, however, contradicts the findings of experts and a recent UN report, according to which conditions continue to deteriorate in the central part of the Sahel, “especially in Burkina Faso and Mali”.
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