Mali News » Kidal News Mali » Kidal » Culture: Kidal falls and Mali’s defense chief killed in coordinated attacks
Coordinated offensives by Tuareg separatists and al-Qaeda-linked militants have killed Mali’s defense minister and forced Malian and Russian troops from the symbolic northern town of Kidal. The ...
News Mali » Kidal » Culture: The battle of Kidal, a triumph for Mali’s Assimi Goïta
“Glory to the Malian army! Long live the five colonels!”: On 14 November, Colonel Assimi Goïta’s supporters thronged Bamako’s Independence Square following the announcement that the Malian Armed ...
News Mali » Kidal » Culture: Rebels jeered Putin’s troops out of a key African town. Now his regional grip is slipping away
When Russian forces withdrew last month from the strategic stronghold of Kidal in northern Mali — retreating under the jeers of the very rebels they were sent to crush — they surrendered more than ...
News Mali » Kidal » Culture: Malian defense chief is killed as jihadis and rebels seize towns and military bases
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Mali 's defense minister was killed in a sweeping attack by jihadis and rebels who seized several towns and military bases, authorities said Sunday, the latest violence in the ...
News Mali » Kidal » Culture: Mali: Wagner flies flag over Kidal
The video lasts only a few seconds, but it’s enough to see the role played by the Wagner Group in the recapture of Kidal. Published on 22 November on the Russian militia’s Telegram channel, it shows ...
News Mali » Kidal » Culture: Evening brief: Mali massacre exposes Russia’s Sahel failure as Kidal falls
Mali’s Russian security model cracked in public over the weekend, and it cracked in the exact place Bamako and Moscow could least afford to lose: Kidal. Reuters reported that JNIM, al-Qaeda’s Sahel ...
News Mali » Kidal » Culture: Mali's army and Russian mercenaries accused of killing dozens of civilians in Kidal region
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali's army and Russian mercenaries killed dozens of civilians during a military operation last month in northern Mali, civil organization and community members alleged Friday, ...
News Mali » Kidal » Culture: Mali troops and Russian mercenaries withdraw from Kidal after coordinated rebel attacks
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Malian troops and Russian mercenaries withdrew from the northern city of Kidal after a series of coordinated attacks across the country by rebel and jihadi forces, the rebels ...