Скачать или смотреть Tuareg rebels claim to have seized 2 military bases in Mali

On Sunday, September 17, 2023, after heavy fighting between the Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) and an alliance of Tuareg rebels that calls itself the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), the CMA announced it took control of two military bases in the town of Lere in the Timbuktu region. The CMA, which signed a peace agreement with the Malian government in 2015 after launching attacks in Northern Mali supported by al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in 2012, announced last week that it was once again at war with the Malian government. Last Tuesday, the CMA took control of a military base and military posts in Bourem (a town between the ancient cities of Timbuktu and Gao) after weeks of fighting between the CMA and the FAMa supported by Wagner Group. According to Reuters, the CMA claimed it attacked four army positions near Bourem and seized vehicles, weapons, and ammunition. Prior to the Tuareg rebellion of 2012, the seminomadic Tuareg people claimed the governments of Mali and Niger marginalized them and that mining projects had damaged their grazing areas.