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[News] Ukrainian support for Malian rebels?

August 23, 2024 Nicolas Gros Verheyde United Nations Security Council, JNIM, NonNotif, North Mali, information, Terrorisme, Ukraine 2 min read

(B2) The Ukrainians provided valuable intelligence to the rebels, and even to terrorist movements, to defeat the Russians on Malian soil. A serious breach. A bloody battle for the...

France withdraws from Timbuktu

December 15, 2021 B2 Writing North Mali, Operation Barkhane, OPEX, retired, Timbuktu 2 min read

(B2) France's disengagement maneuvers in Timbuktu have been completed. This is the last of three bases, after Kidal and Tessalit, to be transferred to partner armed forces, so...

At the podium of the United Nations General Assembly (Credit: UN)

[Verbatim] The Wagners in the Malian interstice. A red line for Europeans

September 29, 2021 Nicolas Gros Verheyde Barkhane, Choguel Maiga, elections, Florence Parly, Wagner Group, Red line, Mali, Minusma, North Mali, Sanctions 5 min read

(B2) The remarks of Malian Prime Minister Choguel Maïga before the UN General Assembly on Saturday (September 25) shocked Paris and provoked a vitriolic speech in Brussels. In…

(Credit: Elysee)

Pau Summit: Africans and French agree to work together. Operation Barkhane and the G5 Sahel placed under a single command

14th January 2020 B2 Writing Barkhane, EIGS, Emmanuel Macron, Army training, France, G5 Sahel, Josep Borrell, Libya, Mali, North Mali, Capacity Building, Nouakchott Summit, Pau Summit, Takuba task force 10 min read

(B2) Meeting in Pau, Emmanuel Macron and his counterparts from the G5 Sahel (Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mauritania) redefined their strategy in the fight against terrorism in…

Minusma soldiers targeted in Aguelhok, then in Gao (V2)

April 6, 2018 Nicolas Gros Verheyde Aguelhok, Minusma, North Mali 1 min read

(B2) Two Chadian peacekeepers and at least ten others were injured on Thursday evening (April 5) in a mortar attack on the MINUSMA camp in…

EUTM Mali priorities: re-training, schools, medical support, regionalization (General Harvent)

December 6, 2016 Nicolas Gros Verheyde Malian army, Protective bubble, schools, EUTM Mali, Protective strength, Training, free, Gao, IED, Military mission, North Mali, Open, Medical support 7 min read

(B2) After training eight army battalions, EUTM Mali has begun its transition. The commander of the European mission, Belgian General Eric Harvent, details for B2 the various…

Serval 2013. Cursed discovery. Algerian kerosene and Belgian helicopters

May 25, 2015 Nicolas Gros Verheyde Belgium, Boko Haram, child soldiers, Gao, free, Mali, Medevac, North Mali, Serval 5 min read

(BRUSSELS 2) General Barrera is a figurehead of the French army. After serving in the Balkans (Bosnia, Kosovo) and Africa (Chad, Ivory Coast), he was sent...

[Interview] Mali: terrorists still present. A Serval operation still necessary (Foucaud)

April 26, 2014 B2 Writing Al Qaeda, Algeria, Ansar Dine, AQMI, Malian army, Bamako, DLAO, IHL, EUTM Mali, Training, France, Gao, IED, Mali, Mujao, Niger, North Mali, Serval, Terrorisme 8 min read

(BRUSSELS 2) Terrorist movements do not appear to be completely out of harm's way in Mali. The recent announcement (Tuesday, April 22) by MUJAO of the death of French hostage Gilberto Rodriguez Leal,…

Kidal, Gao and Timbuktu: three distinct threats

March 31, 2014 B2 Writing Malian army, criminality, EUTM Mali, IED, Mali, threat, North Mali, Terrorisme, traffic, Arms trafficking, Conflict areas 2 min read

Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are one of the tools of the guerrilla war in northern Mali. Here, soldiers from the Balanzan Battalion report the presence of an IED during a…

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