Tuareg-led armed coalition
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Controls Kidal, Tessalit, Aguelhok, Ber, Tessit and the Intahaka gold mine; holding approximately 130 Malian soldiers captive in Kidal (Al Jazeera footage published May 4); vows to advance on Gao, Timbuktu and Menaka; allied JNIM forces enforcing blockade of Bamako
President Assimi Goïta assumed the defence portfolio on May 4 by presidential decree, 11 days after FLA rebels and JNIM militants struck five Malian cities on April 25, 2026. His predecessor Sadio Camara was killed in a car-bomb assassination a week earlier; Goïta named Army Chief of Staff General Oumar Diarra as minister delegate.
Updated May 31
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