{"id":12683,"date":"2024-07-29T12:59:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T12:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=12683"},"modified":"2024-07-29T13:02:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T13:02:22","slug":"mali-tuareg-rebels-inflict-losses-on-government-and-marcenary-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/12683\/mali-tuareg-rebels-inflict-losses-on-government-and-marcenary-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali: Tuareg rebels inflict losses on Government and marcenary forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the northern region of\u00a0Mali,\u00a0Tuareg rebels\u00a0reported on Saturday that they had killed and wounded several government soldiers and\u00a0Russian Wagner Group\u00a0mercenaries during a two-day clash near the Algerian border. The Malian military confirmed the deaths of two soldiers and injuries to 10 others.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0CSP-PSD rebel movement declared on Saturday that they had seized armoured vehicles, trucks, and tankers during the confrontations in Tinzaouaten on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p>They also asserted causing damage to a helicopter that crashed in\u00a0Kidal, located hundreds of kilometres away.<\/p>\n<p>The Malian army verified that two soldiers were killed and 10 were injured, with a helicopter crashing in Kidal during a routine mission on Friday, resulting in no casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Videos shared on social media showed motionless bodies of several white men and Malian soldiers lying near wrecked vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Reports from Russian military bloggers indicated that approximately 20 Wagner group members were killed in an ambush near the Algerian border.<\/p>\n<p>The information provided by the bloggers remains unverifiable independently, despite their assertions.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Elmaouloud Ramadane, spokesperson for the pro-independence CSP-DPA coalition, stated in a press release that a fierce two-day battle occurred near Tinzawaten village, resulting in the\u00a0&#8220;rebels successfully defeating the Malian army and Russian mercenaries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ramadane mentioned that\u00a0&#8220;the enemy suffered significant casualties in both personnel and equipment, with many dead and injured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that\u00a0&#8220;several Malian soldiers and Wagner group mercenaries surrendered to the Tuareg fighters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">In Mali, local fighters defeated a large attack group of the Russian Military Contingent &#8220;Wagner&#8221; that tried to attack one of the cities they controlled.<br \/>\nDuring the battle, the mercenaries lost several MRAP armored vehicles and a Mi-24 helicopter <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p8ZD8kI4kI\">pic.twitter.com\/p8ZD8kI4kI<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014 TOGA (@TOGAjano21) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TOGAjano21\/status\/1817278882241741003?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Tuareg people inhabit the Sahara region, with some residing in northern Mali.<\/p>\n<p>They often feel marginalized by the Malian government.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, a separatist group launched an insurgency against Mali&#8217;s junta government, which was later taken over by Islamist factions.<\/p>\n<p>Wagner contractors have been operating in Mali since at least 2021 and were deeply engaged in fierce conflicts during Russia&#8217;s involvement in the war in\u00a0Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, their future became unclear following the death of their commander\u00a0Yevgeny Prigozhin\u00a0in a plane accident in August 2023, following a brief uprising against the Russian armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>Mali, grappling with political turmoil stemming from recent coups, persists in fighting a persistent Islamist rebellion with the support of Russian troops, who are characterized as instructors rather than mercenaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the northern region of\u00a0Mali,\u00a0Tuareg rebels\u00a0reported on Saturday that they had killed and wounded several government soldiers and\u00a0Russian Wagner Group\u00a0mercenaries during a two-day clash near the Algerian border. The Malian military confirmed the deaths of two soldiers and injuries to 10 others. The\u00a0CSP-PSD rebel movement declared on Saturday that they had seized armoured vehicles, trucks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":14,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"AP","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"0","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"0","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2362,1129,27],"tags":[240,2843,187,373,1454,1579],"class_list":["post-12683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-security","category-west-africa","tag-algeria","tag-csp-dpa-coalition","tag-mali","tag-russia","tag-tuareg","tag-yevgeny-prigozhin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}