Basic Jean Elysee Dao says 60 others additionally wounded as military retakes key city after practically per week of combating.
Printed On 12 Jul 2026
The Malian military says about 30 troops have been killed and dozens extra wounded throughout an operation to retake the northern city of Anefis from rebels.
Tuareg separatists and fighters from an armed group linked to al-Qaeda captured Anefis of their newest sequence of simultaneous attacks on military positions throughout the nation on July 4.
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On Friday, the military mentioned it had taken management of the city, some 100km (62 miles) from the strategic metropolis of Kidal, after practically per week of combating.
“I remorse the lack of round 30 folks, 30 fallen martyrs,” military chief Basic Jean Elysee Dao advised state TV, including that about 60 have been wounded, together with some in severe situation.
“We even have round 60 wounded, together with severe circumstances,” Dao mentioned.
His feedback got here a day after the Tuareg-led Azawad Liberation Entrance (FLA) mentioned it had misplaced a few of its finest fighters throughout the battle in opposition to the military and its allied Russian paramilitaries, however had inflicted “the heaviest materials and human losses of their historical past within the area”.
Navy-run Mali has been grappling with a security, political and humanitarian crisis for greater than a decade.
The al-Qaeda-linked Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin controls swaths of rural territory within the nation whereas the FLA seeks to ascertain an unbiased state in northern Mali.
Whereas usually at odds, fighters from the 2 teams or their predecessors have additionally partnered occasionally to battle frequent enemies, particularly Mali’s authorities and its allies.
In late April, they have been behind one other sequence of coordinated attacks that focused places throughout Mali, killing Defence Minister Sadio Camara and prompting fighters to declare a siege on the capital, Bamako.
