Drably Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/drably/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 18 Jul 2016 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Drably Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/drably/ 32 32 Islamists attack Malian town and army base https://jjcornish.com/2016/07/islamists-attack-malian-town-army-base/ Mon, 18 Jul 2016 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2016/07/islamists-attack-malian-town-army-base/ Malian uthorities say gunmen have killed at least 10 soldiers and wounded 38 in an attack on an army camp in the central town of Nampala. The deputy mayor says the suspected Islamist militants have seized control of an army base. The Malian army is regrouping in nearby Diabaly preparing a counter-attack to retake the […]

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]]> Malian uthorities say gunmen have killed at least 10 soldiers and wounded 38 in an attack on an army camp in the central town of Nampala.

The deputy mayor says the suspected Islamist militants have seized control of an army base.

The Malian army is regrouping in nearby Diabaly preparing a counter-attack to retake the base, which fell into the hands of the assailants

Officials have no information on casualties.

French forces intervened in Mali in 2013 to drive back Islamist fighters who had hijacked a Tuareg uprising to take over the desert north.

But despite the presence of an 11 000-strong peacekeeping force, militants have reorganized and continued to launch attacks across Mali and the wider West Africa region.

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