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Modibo Koné

Modibo Koné

Head of Mali's National State Security Agency (internal intelligence chief)

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Tuareg rebels and jihadists strike Mali in coordinated offensive, capture Kidal

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Reportedly died April 26, 2026 of gunshot wounds sustained during the JNIM assault on Kati on April 25.

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