Bamako, May 6, 2026 (AFP) - Wave of arrests, abductions after attacks on Mali junta

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2026-05-06

Malian opposition figures and military personnel have been detained or abducted following large-scale attacks by jihadists and separatists on junta positions, security, legal and family sources told AFP on Wednesday. The shock coordinated assaults last month by the Al-Qaeda-linked Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM) and the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), an ethnic Tuareg separatist movement, plunged the west African nation into a se......

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