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Three Italian Jevhovah Witness Missionaries captured way back in May of 2022 by AQIM affiliated Islamic militants have finally been released and are returning to Rome. It was an elderly couple in their sixties accompanied by their son who was in his forties. They were apparently in good health...

Bad times continue to roll for the Mali military. Quite the haul if accurate. I wonder if they miss Prigozhin...

Tuareg Militants reportedly launched an attack on a Malian military base inflicting heavy casualties. Supposedly ninty soldiers killed and thirty vehicles captured.

That explains where Captain Scott Ritter got his specialized training from when he worked for the UN. 🫡

Security Situation since the military coup(s) seems to have degraded a bit these last few months. Thank goodness for myopic journalism or people might notice.

In case your wondering where the Wagner Merc's got the almost highly successful "Just drive your large vehicle convoy across the entire huge country" tactic from. The Mali Security Forces and their Wagner support will have to contend with more then just the Islamic linked militants of various...

Oh what rough luck...

That would imply that only this particular UN Peacekeeping mission has engaged in such behavior then as opposed to a general observation of UN Peacekeeping in general. o_O

What is that reputation relative in proportion to the other factions in the conflict though?

Yeah twelve to fifteen thousand peacekeepers is a lot and while the security situation in Mali hasn't improved recently... that was with the presence of those thousands of peacekeepers plus the thousand or so Wagner Mercenaries (and two small European Union Military Training Missions) so I'm not...

United Nations Security Council has decided to remove its decades old UN Peacekeeping Mission to Mali which will draw down in the coming months with a complete withdrawal starting January 1st, 2024. This comes as the transitional government of Mali asked for them to be withdrawn immediately due...

Some more random developments in Mali. Thousands in the Malian Capitol City of Bamako have protested, advocating the complete withdrawal of the UN Mission there, MINUSMA, which has been in place since 2013, stating it has failed to protect the population from terrorism. The UN Mission in Mali...

Tatarigami (whose actually done some impressive analysis of military bits of the ongoing Special Military Operation in Ukraine from the Ukrainian POV) put up a short Twitter thread regarding Russia/Wagner activities in Mali, especially in light of the recent bombing that took place near a Wagner...

The President of Mali's Chief of Staff and three others were killed by Islamist Rebels in an ambush. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/20/malian-presidents-chief-of-staff-three-others-killed-in-ambush Two days later an Islamist attack took place near a Malian military base in the center of...

Last month, on August 18th, French troops finally departed Mali after having aided the country there in their ongoing fight against Islamic militants since 2012. Russian Wagner PMC will now have to fill the gap. Having been in the country in considerable number since December of 2021, Russians...

A month later and still no access for either journalists, the United Nations or other investigators to the alleged site of the Moura Massacre over a month ago by the Malian Army and Wagner Mercenaries, of which reportedly one to two thousand are located in the country. Mali claims no Russian...

Barely a few months in country and Russia's Wagner Group is being investigated for either aiding or perpetrating the massacre of over two hundred Malian civilians in cooperation with the new Malian Junta. The executions occurred after Wagner Forces in cooperation with the Malian Military...

AHA I knew there was a Mali thread. Mali apparently has given France 72 hours to leave the country. They apparently aren't fans of France being critical of Mali's new coup placed government saying they'll remain in power until 2025 among other public statements critical of the military junta...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/mali-soldiers-promise-elections-coup-200819094832716.html Some people have election cycles. Others have coup cycles. Eight years after overthrowing the Mali government back in 2012 over mismanagement in response to the Tuareg Rebellion and Islamist...