Algeria says it downed a drone near its border with Mali as tensions simmer between the 2 countries

Algeria shoots down military drone near border with Mali

Algeria's military announced on Tuesday that it had shot down an armed drone near the country's southern border with Mali, marking a rare and potentially significant military escalation in tensions between the two neighbours.   The aircraft, identified as a Turkish-made Akinci combat drone, was intercepted on Tuesday, 1 April, as it entered Algerian airspace near Tin Zaouatine, a remote town that has become a stronghold for Tuareg separatists op…

Algeria shoots down drone near border with Mali as tensions simmer

Algeria and Mali give differing accounts of an unmanned aircraft that went down in their desert border region.

Algeria says it downed a drone near its border with Mali as tensions simmer between the 2 countries

Algeria says it has shot down a military drone near the country’s border with Mali. It's the first incident of its kind during growing tensions between the two countries governing a vast portion of the Sahara.

The situation on the border between Algeria and Mali is undergoing new developments marked by security incidents and increasing tensions between the various actors in the region. These events occur in a context already fragile for several months. The spokesman for the Coordination of Movements of Azawad (CMA), Mohamed Elmaouloud Ramadane, announced this Wednesday, 2 April, the death of six people and injuries following air strikes by a drone of …

Drone Dispute: Algeria and Mali's Conflicting Accounts

Drone Dispute: Algeria and Mali's Conflicting Accounts Algeria and Mali have provided conflicting narratives regarding a recent unmanned aircraft incident along their desert border, intensifying regional tensions.The Algerian Defence Ministry has announced that its army shot down an 'armed surveillance drone' that encroached upon its airspace near Tin Zaouatine.Conversely, Mali's army has clarified that the drone belonged to them and crashed due…

An armed drone, of Turkish-made Bayraktar AKINCI, was shot down by an Algerian Air Defense Force fighter on the Algerian-Mali border, as reported today by the Ministry of Defence (MDN) in a statement published on Tuesday, April 1. The armed aircraft was intercepted after entering Algeria’s airspace two kilometres, according to the Algerian Defence. Azawad’s movements had already claimed the demolition, but without providing effective information…