Several demonstrators were on the streets on Tuesday, August 8, to denounce the persistent insecurity in the city of Timbuktu.
Armed robberies and the abduction of vehicles and motorcycles are recurrent in Timbuktu despite the presence of the Malian and international armed forces.
“Give us back our motorcycles and vehicles” chanted young people who walked from the monument of the martyrs to the independence site where a memorandum was read in front of the representative of the governor. They also denounce kidnappings and targeted assassinations.
The demonstrators, however, demanded “the involvement of the State in securing the populations and their property, the multiplication of patrols in the city, the systematic searches of cars and motorcycles at the entrances and exits of the city”.
Civilians and the military are targets of the attackers. On July 12, two gendarmes were wounded after shooting at their vehicle in the heart of Timbuktu city.