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🇲🇱💀🏇 People often wonder why the Malian army is filled with cowards who run away from their positions.
No one is surprised to learn that the Malian army, even when fully equipped, instantly retreats from battle , even if the battle has not yet begun, for example in the Niafunke base roll up, the Yeliman base attack, and according to reports from the field, even in the battle of the ill-fated Ti-n-Zaouâtene, FAMa officers ran away.
▪️ In almost every attack on a FAMa base, you can notice that the army loses 1-5 men at most, when sometimes there is a whole platoon or company in the base and it is clearly not because of combat experience.
1️⃣ One of the reasons for this behavior is the absolute incompetence and, I am not afraid of this word, stupidity of Mali's officers and generals.
The reason for this is the low degree of training in military academies. The EU and UN missions, if any, have trained mostly pilots and in very limited numbers, while the knowledge base, even in the most prestigious places, remained on the military thinking of the 1980s.
2️⃣ Another reason for this outrage in the army is the absolute lack of credibility of this very army in the country,
The FAMa are constantly suffering losses and lack of security, which is particularly acute for the residents of Mopti and Menaka, where they rely on local militias. residents are already disillusioned with the army. This is also due to the fact that people do not join the army from a good life.
3️⃣ The third reason is the lack of morale and any training for the troops. After the battle of Ti-n-Zaouâtene, the morale of the soldiers is below the plinth, this affects the recent events as well.
➡️ Yes, Wagner trains Malians to fight, but not all of them, far from it. Officers and ordinary soldiers are jealous of Wagner's salary and authority, so they don't set them as an example, and generally don't listen to advice.
🔻 In the dry it becomes clear why FAMa are so cowardly. In my opinion African Corps and PMC ‘Wagner’ should start tougher training measures, instil love for their homeland, etc.
But so far all the work in the country is limited to the fact that what the national armed forces should do is done by foreign instructors.
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🏳️💀Azawad official indirectly confirms that the captives are still alive:
"The mercenaries from the Russian Wagner group held by the CSP-DPA after the clashes in Tin Zautin are not hostages, but rather prisoners of war."
🇧🇫About another coup attempt in Burkina Faso
During independence day on August 5, the country's transitional president Ibrahim Traoré reported another thwarted coup attempt in the country. At the same time, a source told us of the arrest of the intelligence minister and several officers involved,
❗️ These events tell us once again that Traoré's power is not so stable
His base of support is British and Russian businesses, as well as revolutionary-minded youth in the cities who believe in the image of a “new Sankare”. In the villages, however, the opposite is true, as evidenced by the increasing number of militants operating in the country.
The country's prime minister, Apollinaire Tambela, known for his populist speeches, is also in disgrace.
🔻 However, as the same source told us, the president is not serious about internal threats. And many of his decisions could play a cruel joke on him.
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🇷🇺Russia may start supplying YAK-130M airplanes to African countries. The African Initiative reports with reference to RosoboronExport.
✔️ Yak-130M is an export version of the Yak-130 and was developed already in Russia, not in the USSR. Even as a training attack aircraft, it can perfectly fulfill its functions in combat conditions.
✈️ It is armed with short-range air-to-air missiles p-73, nars c-8 and c-13, and can carry bombs up to 500 kg in quantity from 2 to 4 pieces.
🔻 It's a perfect, for African conditions attack aircraft, so I wouldn't be surprised if future deliveries to Africa start. All the more obvious that it will be cheaper than full fighter jets.
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🏳️🇲🇱 Rumors of the capture of Ti-n-Zaouâtene are once again circulating on the Malian internet
Not surprisingly, though. War has long been a fashionable topic in the country's information space. Especially in Bamako, where they do not follow what happens outside the city.
But the Azawadians published a video anyway, just in case, where the MNLA flag is clearly visible over the city.
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🇲🇱🏳️Yelimane attack: militants conducted a successful raid
The al-Qaida-affiliated group JNIM launched a raid on a Malian Armed Forces base in the town of Yelimane in the Kayes region from Mauritanian territory yesterday.
▪️ The militants claimed to have killed four soldiers, burned down the headquarters and removed equipment.
I attach the footage they provided: they seized at least 4 vehicles and many small arms.
❗️ It is noteworthy that civilians were calmly filming and greeting the attackers, which suggests the creation of new Islamist cells along the border.
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🇸🇳🇲🇱What was required to prove: Sonko will visit Mali
In general, the ground was prepared before, his support in the current "Alliance of Sahel States" is already high.
And recent actions strongly condemning the actions of Ukraine once again emphasize his role in the negotiation process for the reintegration of countries in ECOWAS.
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🇸🇳 🇺🇦 And events in Senegal are developing much more interestingly - now there is already a question of expelling the Ukrainian ambassador from the country.
Actually, looking at the pro-Western position of even the current authorities (yes, yes, they play Pan-Africanists, but it's a hat), even the summoning of the ambassador was an unexpected decision.
❗️ But the reason is clear as day. - behind all this there is a desire not to worsen relations with the Malian leadership. For them, Bassirou Faye (Senegal's president) is the only hand-wringer from the ECOWAS bloc that Bamako sees as aggressive.
Therefore, anything can happen in Côte d'Ivoire - like the opening of an office of drone software developers from Kyiv in Abidjan. Since its leadership will not communicate with countries important for the image of the organization (Alliance of Sahel States). Especially in Burkina Faso they have long been labeled sponsors of terrorism.
✒️ But in Senegal, things are quite different. Faye and Sonko will still play their part.
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🏳️🇲🇱🔥Also tonight once again Ti-n-Zaouâtene was hit by a UAV.
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🏳️🇲🇱An al-Qaida-affiliated group, JNIM, attacked a Malian military post in Eliman, Kayes
Notably, the attack again came from Mauritanian territory.
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🇳🇪🤝🇺🇸 Top U.S. and Nigerian officials meet.
Niger's Foreign Minister Bakary Yaou Sangaré received the US Ambassador to Niger, Kathleen Fitzgibbon.
📌Reminder that Niger has already made attempts at rapprochement with the US while in the Sahel Alliance of States.
At the meeting, they discussed ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation in various fields, according to media reports.
🔻 They also considered the possibility of a working visit by a US delegation to Niger.
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🇧🇫 Top al-Qaeda terrorist leader and more than a hundred militants killed in Burkina Faso: local military
Burkina Faso's army announced that it had eliminated 103 terrorists, including the leader of a local al-Qaeda-affiliated group, describing his death as a "devastating blow" to the terrorist organization, which operates in much of the West African country.
According to a statement published by Burkina Faso's official news agency, citing security and military sources, an army patrol was attacked by hundreds of terrorists on July 31 near the village of Nabadi in the Koulbiligou region, located in the eastern center of Burkina Faso.
"Thanks to the courage of the soldiers, the enemy suffered a crushing defeat and fled, leaving 103 bodies on the battlefield," the sources said, adding that among the dead was a senior leader of a local terrorist group.
The group led by Abu al-Darda was reportedly responsible for numerous terrorist attacks against security forces and self-defense militias.
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🏳️🇲🇱 As for this video - the Azawadians say it was taken on July 21st in the village of Intiwik, near Aguelhok
They also gave the coordinates of the building on google maps (19.42979469906527, 1.3262977288733762).
Pretty much yes - it was both before the raid to In-Afarak, and before the trek to Ti-n-Zaouâtene via Boughessa.
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🏳️💀Azawadians continue to publish video footage from the cameras of the dead fighters of PMC "Wagner".
In this recording, a car is trying to retreat from under fire. Allegedly - this is the VP-11, hit back on July 25th near Ti-n-Zaouâtene. Then the crew managed to leave the vehicle.
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🇲🇱💀"So, the information from the dushmans [militants] is that there is a storm and they can't see us."
Another video from the camera of the dead PMC "Wagner" fighter, presumably the administrator of the channel GREY ZONE Nikita "Belyi".
Posted by Azawadian sources.
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🏳️🇲🇱Militants of the al-Qaida-affiliated JNIM attacked a post in the town of Melgue, on the border with Mauritania.
This is the second attack by JNIM on the Mauritanian border in the past month. The first attack was at a base in Yelimane.
Islamists had previously attacked this post. The army in the area has nothing to oppose the militants, because there are no forces to ensure control over the huge border with Mauritania, where the jihadists feel themselves at ease.
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🇧🇯🇨🇳 China hands over to Benin a large batch of military equipment
Chinese Ambassador to Benin Peng Jintao handed over a large batch of military equipment to the Benin army to fight terrorism on August 13.
The weapons in question are artillery howitzers and their components. The delivery is said to significantly enhance the operational capabilities of Benin's armed forces, which are fighting jihadists in the north of the country, near the border with Burkina Faso and Niger.
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🏳️🇲🇱On the prospects of the Taoudenni Basin
A brief overview of Mali's gold and lithium resource base focused on the oil-bearing areas in the north of the country. Most of these are currently controlled by either Islamists from the al-Qaida* affiliated group Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam Wal-Muslimin or Azawad separatists.
A 2015 assessment of reserves in the area recorded some 600 million barrels of shale oil and 160 million of conventional oil, as well as some 2 billion cubic feet of gas. While not quite as impressive, it would certainly give at least some meaningful boost to the Sahelian state.
▪️ Despite the fact that the Taoudenni basin runs mainly through Mauritanian territory and a little bit through Algerian territory, over the years it has only been possible to discover reserves in Algeria, which has been actively extracting oil from the area.
Other countries in the region are not particularly engaged in its development. The Mauritanian government has no desire to invest in adventurous projects where nothing has been discovered for decades.
▪️ However, the real interest in mining in Mauritania appeared only in the early 2020s, when active gas and oil production from offshore fields began. And now some companies are also showing interest in the east of the country.
In Mali, the situation is clear: because the government has not controlled the northern regions for a dozen years, it is impossible to conduct legal oil exploration there. And since 2014 there has been a moratorium on this.
▪️ But those interested in sponsoring jihadists and insurgents can conduct their limited geological work in order to prepare the ground for later intervention.
❗️ And what Russia? And Russia doesn't really pay much attention to the potentially huge resources that may be hiding in a relatively friendly country.
And in general, given the Russian media field's play with anti-colonialism in Africa, it seems that even at the highest level they believe it - that we are only engaged in gratuitous aid on the African continent for the sake of Russian flags in the squares.
Except that this media campaign has no real effect, and some leaders like Touadéra are already giving clear hints that if economic flows from Moscow are not established, French or American soldiers may well replace Russian soldiers.
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🇧🇫 Official information from Burkina Faso Armed Forces regarding strikes on terrorists.
🌐 The article says that in 4 days, the 19th Rapid Reaction Battalion eliminated 86 terrorists and took 2 prisoners.
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🏳️🇧🇯🇹🇬The al-Qaida-affiliated group JNIM attacked the headquarters of the Armed Forces of Togo and Benin.
▪️On August 6, a Togolese Armed Forces headquarters was bombed with an IED in the village of Kankanti (Dabango district), destroying the personnel building and killing several soldiers, according to terrorists.
▪️On August 8, an attack was carried out on a Benin Armed Forces post in which a large quantity of arms and ammunition were trophied and 2 soldiers were said to have been killed.
🔻Looking back at past attacks, it is safe to say that the strength and number of successful attacks by JNIM is growing exponentially.
This is nothing short of worrying, especially against the backdrop of their ambition to reach the Gulf Coast of Guinea.
Who is responsible for this? - is an open question. Unless it is worth remembering who is their main military ally.
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🇧🇫🏳️😎Already a traditional column: the destruction of militants from the Burkina Faso Air Force
🔈The main operations went through the northwest of the country. On the footage neutralized a lot of militants from al-Qaeda-affilated group. As well as, presumably, their bases in villages.
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🇲🇱🇸🇪 And here are the interesting consequences of the Ukrainian diplomatic failure in Africa. In Mali, they expelled the Swedish ambassador after a reduction in humanitarian aid from Stockholm.
In Sweden, they attributed their decision to the breakdown of relations between the Ukrainian and Malian sides. And this, in turn, happened after the unsuccessful statement by the Main Intelligence Directorate about supporting terrorist groups in the Sahel.
The scandal with Sweden became the result of attempts by the European community to cover up the embarrassment of the Kyiv regime. For the same purpose, they bribed Western analysts who previously did not speak about the Ukrainian trace in West Africa, and now suddenly noticed it.
🔻However, the position of the Malian side is indicative in this. The refusal of handouts from Sweden (not as scary as expelling French or British business) is a reason to once again demonstrate a sharp anti-Western course, which may later become a precedent for other countries receiving humanitarian aid from various NGOs.
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🏳️🇲🇱An al-Qaida-affiliated group JNIM once again shelled Anefis with Grad-P
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🏳️🇲🇱Yelimane. Situation.
A gendarmerie post on the Mauritanian border was attacked this morning.
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🇧🇫 He recorded a video in which he claimed to be alive
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🇷🇺 🇧🇫 💀Soldiers with Russian symbols are spotted again in Burkina Faso
The African Corps had previously guarded transitional President Ibrahim Traoré at rallies.
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🏳️🇫🇷Azawadians discussed the situation in Azawad with the mayor of French Pont l'Eveque
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🇧🇫Big attack on a government convoy in Burkina Faso - a very critical situation.
⚔️Al-Qaeda-affilated JNIM terrorists attacked an army convoy connecting Kanchari to Partiaga on August 9, 2024. According to preliminary report, 148 army personnel were killed. The army men fled, abandoning armored vehicles (MRAP VP-11), trucks, and weapons.
This road is a significant highway Ouagadougou - Kanchari - Niamey, also Kanchari has an airfield.
Note that the militants are most likely holed up in the National Park, a forested conservation area, where these generous trophies were taken.
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🏳️🇲🇱The result of a raid by the Malian Armed Forces on the village of Tassikt, south of Kidal
Such raids are usually a matter of the "hatchet" way of resolving the conflict that the leadership in Bamako has chosen.
There are, of course, informants in the villages who sympathize with the separatists and Islamists, as well as their supporters. But such avenues only serve to raise tensions in local communities.
However, it is not my place to evaluate such activities. The chance to negotiate with the Azawad movements was lost almost a year ago - on August 11, under Ber.
And it's more of a perpetual war. The scenario of controlling big cities while the rest of the territories are in natural chaos will suit almost everyone.
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🏳️🇧🇫An ambush by al-Qaida-affiliated Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam Wal-Muslimin (JNIM) Islamists on a Burkina Faso military convoy
The video may be old.
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