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Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED), a conflict think tank. Mali’s army and allied Russian fighters are locked in conflict with several al-Qaeda- and ISIL (ISIS)-affiliated groups
Mali. [JNIM](/news/2025/11/6/is-mali-about-to-fall-to-al-qaeda-affiliate-jnim) is one of the most active armed groups in the region, according to conflict
Mali](https://www.theguardian.com/world/mali) three years ago. Jean-Hervé Jezequel, [Sahel](https://www.theguardian.com/world/sahel) project director for International Crisis Group, described “a major escalation in the conflict, a new stage reached by armed
Mali-Russia alliance, have been accused of attacking civilians, but the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data monitoring group
Mali’s army have killed at least 10 civilians as they prepared to celebrate a wedding in the central region of San in another escalation of the conflict since armed groups
Conflict analysts and Malians on social media are now questioning the strength of Russian defence support to Sahel countries, including military-led Burkina Faso and Niger, which have seen a surge in armed attacks
group on Saturday hit Mali’s main army base and the area near Bamako’s airport, while driving Russian soldiers – deployed in support of government forces – out of Kidal in the north. No statement accompanied
armed groups in the country. But Wagner’s withdrawal from Mali did not mean the departure of Russian fighters. Russian mercenaries have remained in the country under the banner of the Africa Corps, a separate
Mali is “a vast territory, twice the size of France. Most people live in the south, the north is desert and mountains … it’s impossible to control it, not even the French could
armed fighters [stormed the Kenieroba Central Prison](/news/2026/5/6/al-qaeda-linked-fighters-storm-mali-prison-block-food-supplies-to-bamako), a recently built complex about 60km (37 miles) southwest of Bamako, which houses 2,500 prisoners, including at least 72 inmates considered “high value” by the Malian
armed Tuareg separatists of the Liberation Front for Azawad (FLA) group, fighting for an independent nation called Azawad, also in the north, are clashing with the military and allied Russian mercenaries who have been deployed
group to offer support and to avoid any cooperation with Mali’s authorities. Wilen said the attacks were a reminder that despite recent efforts to improve its image, JNIM remained a “terrorist organisation and violent
conflict" between the military government and the rebels, said Jean-Hervé Jezequel, Sahel director with the International Crisis Group. Fighting has been recorded across the country, with BBC Verify confirming 22 videos showing rebel movements
conflict in Congo, after which she fled to Mali, where a fellow Congolese housed her. When the woman who welcomed her died, however, she was forced onto the streets. When Francina arrived in neighbouring Mauritania