Malian authorities are investigating soldiers suspected of involvement in last week’s\u00a0coordinated \u200cattacks\u00a0on army bases across the country by militants linked to al Qaeda and separatist Tuareg rebels, a judicial official said.<\/p>\n
The list of potential accomplices includes three active duty soldiers, a \u200bretired soldier and a soldier who had been “dismissed” and was killed in fighting \u200bnear the country’s main army base in Kati, 15 km outside \u2060the capital Bamako, said the statement from the prosecutor at the military tribunal \u200bin Bamako, which was read on state television late on Friday.<\/p>\n
“The first arrests have \u200bbeen successfully carried out, and all other perpetrators, co-perpetrators, and accomplices are actively being sought,” said the statement, without specifying how many suspects had been identified and who specifically had been taken \u200binto custody.<\/p>\n
The simultaneous attacks beginning on the morning of April 25 showed how \u200bfighters from different groups with different goals were able to of the West \u200cAfrican \u2060country’s military government, which took power after coups in 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n
The defence minister was killed and Russian forces backing the government were forced out of the northern town of Kidal.<\/p>\n
The violence has set off fighting across Mali’s vast desert north, raising \u200bthe prospect of significant \u200bgains by armed \u2060groups that have shown an increasing willingness to strike neighbouring countries and, analysts say, could eventually set their sights further afield.<\/p>\n
The \u200bal Qaeda-linked insurgents, known as Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), have\u00a0called \u200bon Malians \u2060to rise up\u00a0against the government and transition to Sharia law.<\/p>\n
They have also vowed to besiege Bamako, and on Friday security sources said the group had set up checkpoints \u2060around \u200bthe city of four million.<\/p>\n
Military leader Assimi Goita \u200bsaid in a televised address on Tuesday that the situation was , and vowed to “neutralise” the insurgent groups \u200bbehind the attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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