Gunmen conflict Mali army base, kill during slightest 16 soldiers

BAMAKO, Mar 17 – Gunmen pounded and quickly seized a Malian army bottom overnight, murdering during slightest 16 soldiers and destroying 5 vehicles in executive Mali’s Mopti region, dual internal councilors in a area where a conflict happened pronounced on Sunday.

The bottom is in a encampment of Dioura, a mayor of a nearest city Kareri, Youssouf Coulibaly, told Reuters by write from inside it. Central Mali has in a past few years been overshoot by jihadists with links to al Qaeda.

“I’m now inside a bottom and there were many deaths here. We’ve counted 16 so far,” he said. Army orator Colonel Diarran Kone reliable a conflict though gave no serve details.

Violence by jihadist groups has worsened roughly each year given it initial exploded in Mali in 2012, when Islamists and associated Tuareg rebels took over a north and modernized towards a collateral Bamako, until a French-led involvement pushed them behind a following year.

Groups related to al Qaeda and Islamic State used executive and northern Mali as a launch pad for flourishing numbers of attacks opposite a Sahel region, generally on neighbors Niger and Burkina Faso, notwithstanding a participation of 4,500 French troops.

Central Mali is a area of a Macina Liberation Front, led by Salafist reverend and belligerent personality Amadou Koufa. French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly claimed in Nov that Koufa had been killed in a raid by French forces.

But during a finish of final month Koufa seemed in a new promotion video derisive French and Malian forces.

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