From Le Figaro with AFP
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A young man waves the Malian flag in front of the Great Mosque of Djenné, Mali, June 3, 2023. OUSMANE MAKAVELI / AFP
The Permanent Strategic Framework shows that control of the strategically important town of Bourem was regained after a battle with the Malian army.
Armed groups from northern Mali claimed in a press release on Tuesday, September 12, that they had captured the key town of Bourem between Gao and Timbuktu, but at the cost of fighting with the Malian army. The Permanent Strategic Framework, an alliance of armed groups that signed a peace deal with the Malian state in 2015, said it carried out an operation in the garrison town of Bourem that “resulted in the control of the camp and various outposts.” the Malian armed forces and their ally, the Russian paramilitary group Wagner.
Bankruptcy of the 2015 peace agreement
There were “fierce fighting,” said CSP spokesman Mohamed El Maouloud Ramadane. No comment was sought from Malian authorities. Such an operation would confirm the failure of the peace agreement signed by the government and loyalist armed groups in 2015 by an alliance of predominantly Tuareg armed groups that rebelled against the central state in 2012.
After weeks of rising tensions, one of the signatories of the so-called Algiers agreement, the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), announced on Monday evening that it was now at “war” with the junta that had violently seized power in Bamako Year 2020.