Kidal

Um, militant activity has continued to intensify within the country, with the militant group demonstrating increased ability to conduct coordinated multi-front attacks.

JNIM carried out several attacks on military installations and logistic routes across Gao, Kidal, Koulikoro, and Mopti regions in July.

The attacks highlight continued cooperation between JNIM and the Azawad Liberation Front.

Aside from the volatile security environment, operators should expect fuel shortages and limited supplies.

April, 25th of April, they launched a surprise campaign in conjunction with the FLA, the Azawad Liberation Front, operates mostly in the north, across various parts of Mali.

In the process, they together took Kidal in northern Mali.

They've taken more territory.

They carried out a large attack in a garrison town called Kati, killing the defense minister in a massive suicide car bomb.

and injuring him, even though when he showed up in television it was doing well, I have to say.

But most importantly they provided so many footage, so many videos of the seizing of the towns in the north, most importantly Kidal.

and how also the Africa cops were living without fighting.

So it was also a showcase of these are mercenaries, these are not fighting for their own freedom, they are not fighting for any kind of real, something which is worth.

Yes, they didn't need to call for their support because I think that straight away it was showed spontaneously more or less by the allies of the AES, the Alliance of the Sahelian States, the new regional organization that they created in opposition, let's say, to ECOWAS, which is ironic.

But yes, Burkina Faso and Niger, most significantly Niger, they showed support.

They wanted to... to participate in the the targeting of these so-called terrorists and also of course they have a personal involvement in that given that Kidal is just a few kilometers from the Niger border and the whole entire the entirety of the Milan situation is is is the hotbed for the expansion into their territories during the last decade.

I mean, between 2012 and today, if it was not for the incapability of the Malian military and its allies to cope with the rebellion in the first place, there would not be there wouldn't have been a GID expansion in Burkina and Niger and Benin and Togo and Ghana.