Mali: warriors killed in a jihadist trap close to Niger

By Rédaction Africanews

with AFP

A few Malian warriors were killed in the jihadist trap on Thursday of a military caravan heading for Niger, in the Ménaka district (upper east), a tactical authority and a neighborhood chose official said on Friday.

"As indicated by an underlying evaluation, we lost six men," said the tactical authority. "We have today sent off the quest for other people (missing) however the fear mongers have lost somewhere around 15 contenders," he said.

"We can discuss around twenty individuals assuming we count the dead, injured and missing Malian troopers" , said the neighborhood chose official, focusing on that the asset report is "not yet exceptionally clear" .

Both talked on state of namelessness without a trace of true correspondence from the specialists.

The chosen official announced that the Malian armed force and paramilitaries from the Russian security bunch Wagner were sent nearby. The decision junta presents these outside fortifications as Russian educators.

The snare by jihadists from the Islamic State bunch designated a military caravan accompanying trucks towards Niger, an adjoining nation tormented by the spread of jihadists and dove into a significant emergency since a tactical overthrow, as indicated by military and police sources.

Mali , likewise managed by a junta since a putsch in 2020, guaranteed the new Nigerien specialists of its help and cautioned that it would consider an outside military mediation a " statement of war".

A figure of the Nigerian junta confirmed Wednesday, during a visit to Bamako, the significance of participation between the two nations in their battle against the jihadists.

Starting around 2012, Mali has been in the hold of a profound security emergency that began in the north and which has spread to the focal point of the nation and to adjoining Burkina Faso and Niger.

The Ménaka locale, in the upper east, has been the scene for quite a long time of a move by the Islamic State in the More noteworthy Sahara (EIGS). The assaults of the jihadist bunch have guaranteed, as indicated by a new report by Basic freedoms Watch, "hundreds" of passings and constrained a great many individuals to escape the region starting from the start of the year.