{"id":43251,"date":"2026-05-02T21:02:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/05\/02\/mali-in-crisis-jihadist-fighters-and-tuareg-separatists-threaten-bamako\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T21:02:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:02:04","slug":"mali-in-crisis-jihadist-fighters-and-tuareg-separatists-threaten-bamako","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/05\/02\/mali-in-crisis-jihadist-fighters-and-tuareg-separatists-threaten-bamako\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali in crisis: Jihadist fighters and Tuareg separatists threaten Bamako"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>As Mali\u2019s military struggles to maintain control amid a growing jihadist insurgency, a number of its own soldiers have been arrested, accused of collaborating with Al-Qaeda-linked militants in coordinating widespread attacks. Islamist group JNIM, alongside separatist rebels, has reportedly seized two northern cities, killed the defence minister, and is now attempting to impose a blockade on the capital, Bamako.<\/p>\n<p>We take a closer look at what\u2019s happening on the ground, the escalating security crisis, and the role of Russian mercenaries in supporting the government.<\/p>\n<p>France 24\u2019s Gavin Lee is joined by Beverley Ochieng, a specialist in West Africa and political risk analyst at Control Risks, to discuss.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Mali\u2019s military struggles to maintain control amid a growing jihadist insurgency, a number of its own soldiers have been arrested, accused of collaborating with Al-Qaeda-linked militants in coordinating widespread attacks. Islamist group JNIM, alongside separatist rebels, has reportedly seized two northern cities, killed the defence minister, and is now attempting to impose a blockade &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-43251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}