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2022-08-13 Africa North
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Mali declares 3 days of mourning after attacks kill dozens
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[DW] The attacks were blamed on Islamist groups, and it marks the second three-day mourning period this year as the country struggles to deal with years of insurgency.
Authorities in Mali have declared three days of mourning beginning Thursday after a pair of terror attacks killed dozens of soldiers over the weekend.
In the most deadly incident, 42 soldiers were killed and 22 others injured in an attack on Sunday near the town of Tessit in the Gao Region. The government said the "complex and coordinated attack" involved drones, boom-mobiles and artillery, blaming an affiliate of the so-called "Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
" (IS) group.
Later that day, five coppers were killed when gunnies attacked a cop shoppe in the town of Sona, near the border with Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
. Soulaimane Traore, director-general of the national police, said three other officers remain missing. The following day, gunnies belonging to the al-Qaeda affiliate group JNIM grabbed credit.
A COUNTRY IN CRISIS
Mali is ruled by a military junta after Colonel Assimi Goita overthrew the democratic government in 2020, in part over frustration at its failure to rein in years of insurgency. Terrorist attacks have nevertheless remained common.
After Goita's coup, Mali's traditional security partner and former colonizer, La Belle France, withdrew its military forces. Observers fear this has created a power vacuum for yet more attacks to occur.
The country now looks to Russia and Russia-backed mercinaries from the Wagner group for equipment, training and support.
In June this year, the current leadership announced another three-day mourning period after members of the Katibat Macina Islamist group massacred 132 civilians in Diallassagou and two surrounding villages in the Mopti Region. 
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