{"id":44695,"date":"2026-07-04T18:02:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T16:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/07\/04\/rebel-attacks-in-northern-mali-some-targets-meant-as-diversions-expert-says\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T18:02:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T16:02:03","slug":"rebel-attacks-in-northern-mali-some-targets-meant-as-diversions-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/07\/04\/rebel-attacks-in-northern-mali-some-targets-meant-as-diversions-expert-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebel attacks in northern Mali: Some targets meant as &lsquo;diversions&rsquo;, expert says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Malian army said Saturday that several northern towns, including Gao and S\u00e9var\u00e9, were targeted by rebels. The statement came as a rebel group announced a new offensive to capture a town in the country&rsquo;s north. Andrew Lebovich, a research fellow at Clingendael&rsquo;s Conflict Research Unit, said some of the targets were intended more as \u00ab\u00a0diversions\u00a0\u00bb than as primary objectives, unlike strategically important towns such as Anefis.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Malian army said Saturday that several northern towns, including Gao and S\u00e9var\u00e9, were targeted by rebels. The statement came as a rebel group announced a new offensive to capture a town in the country&rsquo;s north. Andrew Lebovich, a research fellow at Clingendael&rsquo;s Conflict Research Unit, said some of the targets were intended more as &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-44695","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\/44695"}],"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=44695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}