Mali: After Its Attacks, the Jnim Decrees the Blockade of the Cities of Kayes and Nioro

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In the West African country, jihadists continue to advance and threaten to cut off the capital from its connection with Senegal. Meanwhile, transition president Goïta is declared the regular head of state.

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In Mali, the Islamic and Muslim Support Group (Jnim, linked to al-Qaeda) announced Wednesday evening, 2 July, the imposition of blockades in the cities in which the inhabitants are accused of having collaborated with the Malian army, following the series of coordinated attacks on Tuesday, along the Senegalese and Mauritanian borders. In its audio messages, the jihadist group quotes the cities of Kayes and Nioro of the Sahel. A measure which, if …

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While the terrorist threat is becoming clearer at Senegal's borders, the deputy Thierno Alassane Sall is sounding the alarm. In a message published on his social media, he warns about the strategy of expansion of the Malian JNIM to Kayes, a few kilometres from Senegalese territory. If the defence forces seem vigilant, the parliamentarian denounces the increasing fragility of the country in the face of this threat, due to poverty, organized crime…

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The three-border Mali-Mauritania-Senegal region, long perceived as relatively stable, notes the site "The conversation", which allows us to resume its text, now faces a worrying rise in security threats related to the expansion of the Islamic and Muslim Support Group (GSIM or JNIM), affiliated with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI). Specifically, the Kayes and Nioro regions of the Sahel in western Mali have become the new anchors of an insi…

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The Senegalese army and security forces began to strengthen their presence in Senegalese villages bordering Mali, following attacks by Al-Qaida armed groups last Tuesday in Mali. According to private Radio RFM, security reinforcements from the Rapid Intervention Unit from the Senegalese National Gendarmerie and elements of the army arrived yesterday in the border villages to reassure the population, on the Senegalese side of the border.