Fréquentation certifiée par l'ACPM/OJD. It will be automatic. Mali. Photo: OCHA/A.Desgroseilliers BBC News Africa Jihadists have repeatedly targeted the U.N. base there, and a 2016 attack killed seven peacekeepers.Associated Press writer Krista Larson in Dakar, Senegal contributed to this report.
L’un des points importants de la réunion de « relance » du Comité de suivi de l’accord de paix d’Alger qui s’est tenue ce week-end à Bamako est le début du redéploiement de l’armée malienne reconstituée dans le nord du Mali, mais particulièrement à Kidal, localité du nord-est du Mali toujours sous contrôle des ex-rebelles. However, the Chadian government did mention that 11 soldiers were injured in a "traffic accident" north of Kidal.On 8 February, French and Chadian troops announced that they had occupied Islamist and Tuareg forces were reported to have retreated to the On 19 February, Islamists attacked a French parachute regiment of 150 soldiers supported by a heavy vehicle patrol and Mirage fighter jets.
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Voices United for Mali-'Mali-ko' (Peace / La Paix)-Français sous-titres On 13 February, Mali government forces returned to Kidal after six years.
Published: 2 March 2013 The operation was carried out with an escort made up of helmets… Mali: reconstituted Fama arrive in Kidal. More support is needed to ensure that our kids can learn safely,” a Kidal woman told Toby Lanzer. 4 (Reporting period: 18 May-30 June 2020) Source. Thursday, 13 February 2020 02:37 PM
Mali Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation Report No. By ADAM NOSSITER "For other armed conflicts that occurred in northern Mali, see Reported deaths of Abdelhamid Abou Zeid and Mokhtar BelmokhtarEnd of ceasefire and renewal of conflict (from September 2013)Reported deaths of Abdelhamid Abou Zeid and Mokhtar BelmokhtarEnd of ceasefire and renewal of conflict (from September 2013) Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.Associated Press, "Coup Leader Reinstates Mali's Constitution", Backgrounder: Situation in Mali, Ralph Sundberg, 5 June 2012, Chad Said to Have Killed Mastermind of Algerian Attack
No Malian soldiers were with them, as a confrontation with Tuaregs was feared.
Rapport à mi-parcours du Groupe d’experts sur le Mali (S/2020/158/Rev.1) Source. RFI - Actualités, info, news en direct - Radio France InternationaleSoldats maliens à Kidal, en 2013 (image d'illustration).
Former colonial power France began its Operation Serval military intervention the following year, driving the jihadists from the towns.But the militant groups morphed into more nimble formations operating in rural areas, and the insurgency gradually spread to central and southern regions of Mali and then into Burkina Faso and Niger.Thousands of people have died in the conflict, which Mali has struggled to contain even with the help of thousands of foreign troops.However, the return of Malian troops to Kidal is considered a step towards the government reasserting control over its vast territory.Soldiers deploying to Kidal is considered a key component in implementing the Algiers peace agreement, struck between the government in Bamako and some rebel groups in 2015.That agreement is in turn seen as one of Mali’s few viable escape routes from a vicious cycle of violence.President Keita for the first time appeared to acknowledge contacts with insurgents, an option that has long been considered beyond the pale for the government.“The number of deaths in the Sahel is becoming exponential and it’s time that certain paths be explored,” he said in the interview.More than 4,000 people were reported killed in militant attacks in the Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger last year, But Keita appeared to have changed course on past refusals to engage.“We are ready to build bridges for dialogue with everyone … at some point, we have to sit around a table and talk,” he said.He said he had sent former president Dioncounda Traore “on a mission.”“He is my high representative, so his job is to listen to everybody,” the president said.Traore was chiefly tasked with seeing if there were people who “could be sensitive to a discourse of reason.”However, Keita also said he was “not naive” about the likelihood of success.“Those who order others to enter a mosque and blow themselves up in the middle of the faithful don’t have much of my esteem,” he said.Kidal fell to separatist Touareg rebels in 2012, and the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad unilaterally declared a short-lived independence for Azawad, which comprises the Kidal, Menaka, Gao and Timbuktu regions.But militants retain a strong presence in the town despite the presence of U.N. peacekeepers and French troops.The rebels late signed a peace accord with the government in Bamako in 2015, although it remains shaky.