{"id":910182,"date":"2026-06-03T15:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/gunmen-stage-simultaneous-attacks-in-and-outside-mali-capital-army\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T15:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:14:08","slug":"gunmen-stage-simultaneous-attacks-in-and-outside-mali-capital-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/gunmen-stage-simultaneous-attacks-in-and-outside-mali-capital-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen Stage Simultaneous Attacks In And Outside Mali Capital: Army"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two loud explosions and sustained gunfire were heard shortly before 6 a.m. (0600 GMT) near Mali’s main military base, Kati, outside the capital Bamako, and soldiers were deployed to block off roads in the area, a \u200bReuters witness said.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Bamako: <\/strong>Militants staged attacks in Mali’s capital, \u200bBamako and in several locations in the interior of the country on Saturday morning, the Mali \u200carmy said, in an apparently coordinated assault involving multiple groups.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Two loud explosions and sustained gunfire were heard shortly before 6 a.m. (0600 GMT) near Mali’s main military base, Kati, outside the capital Bamako, and soldiers were deployed to block off roads in the area, a \u200bReuters witness said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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There was similar unrest at around the same time in the central town of Sevare, the town of Kidal and the city of Gao in northern Mali. “There’s gunfire everywhere,” \u2060a witness in Sevare said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mali is battling insurgencies by the West Africa affiliates of al-Qaeda and Islamic State. \u200bIt is also grappling with a much longer history of Tuareg-led rebellion in the north.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mali’s army said in a \u200bstatement that unidentified “terrorist” groups attacked several positions in the capital and elsewhere in the country, without specifying locations. It said fighting was ongoing and asked the population to remain calm.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mali’s military leaders took power after coups in 2020 and 2021, vowing to restore security, \u200bbut militants continue to stage frequent attacks on the army and civilians.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mohamed Elmaouloud Ramadane, a spokesperson for the \u200bAzawad Liberation Front (FLA), a Tuareg-dominated rebel alliance, said on social media its forces had taken control of multiple positions in Kidal and \u200cGao. \u2060Reuters could not independently verify this claim.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Four security sources said the regional al Qaeda affiliate Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) was also involved in Saturday’s attacks.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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There was no immediate claim of responsibility from JNIM, which frequently stages attacks on military installations throughout much of Mali, or from Islamic State in the Sahel Province (ISSP).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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A government spokesperson and a spokesperson for \u200bMali’s army did not \u200bimmediately respond to requests for \u2060comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Gunfire heard near airport, resident says<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
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Gunfire could also be heard early on Saturday near a military camp close to Bamako’s airport that houses Russian mercenary forces, a resident said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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“We hear \u200bgunfire towards the military camp. It’s not the airport itself, but the camp that \u200bsecures the airport,” \u2060said the resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity for safety reasons.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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The government led by Assimi Goita has leaned on Russian mercenaries for security support while initially spurning defence cooperation with Western countries. Recently, it has pursued closer ties with the \u2060U.S.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Reuters \u200breported in March that Mali and the U.S. were nearing a deal that \u200bwould allow Washington to resume flying aircraft and drones over the West African country’s airspace to gather intelligence on jihadist groups.
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Updated 25 April 2026 at 15:04 IST Two loud explosions and sustained gunfire were heard shortly before 6 a.m. (0600 GMT) near Mali’s main military base, Kati, outside the capital Bamako, and soldiers were deployed to block off roads in the area, a \u200bReuters witness said. Gunmen Stage Simultaneous Attacks In And Outside Mali Capital:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":910183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39545,4089],"tags":[57781,15768],"class_list":["post-910182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gunmen","category-stage","tag-gunmen","tag-stage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}