The Malian gendarmerie said that four gendarmes were killed and three more were hurt in an ambush in the west of the country on Sunday.
During the attack in Kouala, the attackers set fire to two gendarmerie trucks and captured two more armed with machine guns, she said.Others were captured as prisoners, and two attackers were slain.
In its communication, the gendarmerie omitted to say who was responsible for the attack. The jihadist organizations target the gendarmes, the army, the foreign forces, and everything else that represents the state.
The growth of jihadism and a severe, multifaceted political, economic, and humanitarian crisis have plagued Mali since 2012. The unrest began in the north and has now expanded to neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger, primarily affecting the center and east. However, it does not spare the west and is moving south, alarming Senegal and other neighbors of Mali.
The ruling junta has abandoned former allies France and its allies in favor of Russia, both militarily and politically. She claims to have put Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group militants on the defensive.
While the authorities earlier admitted that two-thirds of the region was out of the army’s control, Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maga said over the past week that there was no longer any area of the province where the army could not go. ‘State.
Experts and a recent UN report, on the other hand, disagree with this security conclusion and say that things have gotten worse in the central Sahel, especially in Burkina Faso and Mali.
