By RFIPosted on 02-10-2019Modified on 02-10-2019 at 22:04
In central Mali, two attacks hit the army in the night from Sunday to Monday. Two civilians died in Mondoro. In Boulkessi, 25 soldiers were killed and 70 soldiers disappeared in the assault on the Malian battalion of the joint G5 Sahel force.
Very quickly, only hours after the attack , the G5 Sahel joint force accused Ansarul Islam. It is this Burkinabe terrorist group, which according to a statement, attacked the Malian military camps of Mondoro and Boulkessi.
In Boulkessi, precisely, a locality on the border with Burkina Faso , it is far from being the first jihadist attack. On March 15, the head of the village was kidnapped by " men from the neighboring country ," according to the governor of the region in office at the time of the kidnapping. " This is the area of Jafar Dicko, the head of Ansarul Islam. He preaches regularly, "says a Bulkessi national.
The precedent of Koutougou on August 19th
Also in this village, in 2017 at the time of its creation, the GSIM, a coalition of jihadist groups, claimed its first attacks against the Fama.
In this border area, there is also the organization Islamic State in the Great Sahara. According to a note from Burkinabe intelligence, EIGS, branch of Abdulakim, planned and executed the attack on August 19 in Koutougou where 24 Burkinabe soldiers had lost their lives. Also according to this note, after the assault, the attackers had dispersed. Some up to Boulkessi.
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