In Mali, a new attack by the Permanent Strategic Framework (CSP) rebels took place: it was the Malian military camp of Dioura, in the Mopti region, which was attacked on the evening of September 28.
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At Mali, the Permanent Strategic Framework claims to have attacked this camp at the end of the day, Thursday September 28, to have taken control of it after two hours of combat, then to have withdrawn around midnight. The same operating mode as during the two previous attacks claimed by the CSP, in Bourem on September 12 and in Léré on September 17. Rapid attacks during which CSP men recovered military equipment and left the scene, to try to avoid aerial responses from the Malian Armed Forces (Fama).
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No report has yet been provided for this attack on Dioura, neither by the CSP nor by the Malian army. During previous attacks, contradictory and unverifiable reports from independent sources reported dozens of deaths and prisoners – some have since been released by the CSP for health reasons.
Thursday evening, the Fama declared having suffered in Dioura a “ complex terrorist attack “, attack described as ” Suicide bomber “. The Malian army claims to have sent reinforcements and destroyed, during its response, a column of vehicles, heavy weapons and motorcycles. What the CSP rebels deny.
The Dioura camp is located in the Tenenkou circle, Mopti region, in the center of the country. It is not an area of influence of the CSP, which controls territories in northern Mali. A notable point: it should be noted that Dioura had already been attacked several times by rebels from the North, in 2012 and 2015, and that this military camp is only about a hundred kilometers from the Timbuktu region.
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The CSP brings together a large part of the armed groups in the North that signed the 2015 peace agreement. After eight years of peace, these groups resumed fighting this month against the Malian army, without demands for independence – as is was the case in 2012 – but because they accuse the Malian transitional authorities of not respecting the peace agreement.
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