The coordinated attacks carried out across Mali on April 25 may mark one of the most significant turning points in the country’s conflict since the collapse of the 2015 Algiers Peace Agreement and arguably since the battle of Tin Zaouatine in July 2024, where Russian mercenary group Wagner suffered one of its deadliest setbacks in the Sahel. Yet beyond the military implications, the attacks exposed something that for years was denied, downplayed…
On 25 April, FLA rebels and jnim jihadists took Kidal, hunting General El Hadj Ag Gamou, appointed governor in 2023. Behind the fall of the town-symbol of northern Mali is also a duel between two men whom everything opposes.