Armed males on Sunday took over two navy camps in northern Mali, two elected officers informed AFP, with a spokesman for an alliance of predominantly Tuareg armed teams claiming the assault.
The Malian navy confirmed on social networks that the city of Lere, within the Timbuktu Area of northern Mali, had been attacked on Sunday.
A Malian navy official informed AFP it was “within the strategy of coping with the scenario.”
“Armed males attacked the 2 (navy) camps within the city of Lere on Sunday,” an elected official from the city informed AFP.
“After combating, the armed males took the camps. We’re ready for reinforcement from the military, however for the second it’s the armed males who maintain the camps,” he added.
An official from the executive area additionally mentioned armed males had attacked the 2 camps and continued to carry them.
He mentioned there had been deaths however couldn’t present a toll.
Almou Ag Mohamed, a spokesman for the Coordination of Azawad Actions, an alliance of armed separatist teams dominated by Tuaregs, claimed the assault.
“We attacked and took management of the 2 navy camps within the city of Lere this Sunday,” he informed AFP. “The camps are beneath our management. We shot down a military airplane.”
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Officers have mentioned the assailants haven’t but been formally recognized.
The successionist teams in 2012 launched a revolt earlier than signing a peace settlement with the state in 2015. However that accord is now usually thought of moribund.
This month has seen a resumption of hostilities by the teams.
On Tuesday, the teams launched an offensive towards military positions within the garrison city of Bourem, which the navy mentioned it had repelled.
The 2 sides supplied contradictory reviews of occasions, however each reported dozens of deaths.
The renewed navy exercise by the separatists has coincided with a sequence of assaults attributed primarily to the al-Qaida-linked jihadist alliance Help Group for Islam and Muslims (GSIM).
In August, GSIM introduced it was declaring “struggle within the Timbuktu area.”
In a separate incident on Sunday, two troopers have been killed and one injured in an ambush close to the village of Akor in western Mali, the intelligence providers mentioned.
That assault happened on a provide mission getting back from the city of Guire, it mentioned, including that 4 attackers had additionally been killed.
On Saturday, junta chief Assimi Goita signed a mutual protection pact together with his Nigerien and Burkinabe counterparts establishing a navy alliance and pledging to help each other within the occasion of an assault on their sovereignty or territorial integrity.