The United States exhorted on Friday, July 29, in a statement, non-essential employees of the US government and family members to leave Mali due to insecurity.
The text evokes a risk of terrorist attacks in places frequented by Westerners. Armed and terrorist groups would, according to the United States, project abductions and attacks in this country. Hotels, nightclubs, places of worship and other places frequented by Westerners are among the targeted places.
This call coincided with an attack perpetrated, the same Friday, in the Tevola area, in the rural commune of Askari, located in the Ménaka region (northern Mali), having killed 11 civilians.
The assault was awarded to the Islamic State to the Grand Sahara and ended by the Tuareg community Idaksahak. In a statement published on Saturday, the said community deplores “eleven civilians (…) coldly killed by armed men rolling on a motorcycle isis” who would have “taken the cars of the victims and burned others with their animals”.
The community asked, among other things, the authorities and human rights organizations, to “take the necessary measures to put an end to these gang crimes and translate the perpetrators into court”.
A week before this attack, the Kati military camp where the chief of the military junta resides in power, Colonel Assimi Goïta, had been targeted by an assault claimed by the support group for Islam and Muslims.
By oma Newsletter n ° 801 of 08/01/2022
Article published under the direction of Dr Najib Kettani
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