While the French operation “Barkhane” withdraws, the Malian soldiers, strong the military support of Russia, are more offensive in the center and south of the country.
“Eight neutralized terrorists, three dismantled bases, seven suspects arrested, three improvised explosive devices destroyed, two AK-47, 45 phones, three detonators recovered …” Like every week, Tuesday 1 er March The Malian Army staff set up the results of the operations carried out by its soldiers in the center of the country between 24 and 28 February. “The Fama [Malian Armed Forces] continue to consolidate operational achievements in the face of more and more febrile terrorists. The fear has changed camp, the enemy is fleeing towards borders or concealment in the population”, supports the Press release Posted on the FAMA Facebook page.
Since the end of 2021, publications managed by the Information and Public Relations Department of the Armies (DIRPA) have accelerated, to the point of becoming almost daily. Military victories, operations, charitable actions, clashes with an enemy that would now be in “an unfavorable forces report” … FAMAs chained releases to maintain the idea, more and more widespread in the population, that they are now able to take over the enemy, at the moment when Paris, after nine years of a tired war against jihadists, begins his military withdrawal.
“The French soldiers spent nine years with us and the villages fell one by one, while our army, in six months, released a good part of the zones occupied by the jihadists”, abounds with a smile Boubou Mabel Diawara , a great Khaki full man presenting as an investigative journalist. Saturday, February 19, like hundreds of Malians and in particular the activists of the Yerewolo Association, renowned anti-French and pro-Russian, he celebrated on the edge of the Tower of Africa, in Bamako, the departure of the French soldiers of the French “Barkhane” operation and the “mounted in power of the Malian army”.
“Our military is now offensive and show their professionalism, partly thanks to their collaboration with Russia, which gives them a lot of strength,” says the activist, a document entitled “Military Collective” by hand, of the name of an association deemed to be close to the power in power since the double coup of August 2020 and May 2021. In recent months, more than 800 Russians arrived in Mali: mercenaries of the private security group WAGNER Paris, trainers sent by Moscow according to Bamako. Some have been seen by local patrolling sources alongside the Fama as part of the “Keletigui” operation (“War”, in Bambara), launched in the last quarter 2021 in the center and the south.
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