{"id":5311,"date":"2018-01-07T10:40:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T10:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/?p=5311"},"modified":"2018-11-27T14:44:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T14:44:11","slug":"mali-three-gatia-fighters-killed-in-menaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/mali-three-gatia-fighters-killed-in-menaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali : three Gatia fighters killed in Menaka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>In Anderamboukane,\nin the Menaka region, three fighters of the Tuareg Imghads and allies armed\ngroup (Gatia) lost their lives in an attack. The suspicions are directed\ntowards the small terrorist groups that act along the border between Mali and\nNiger.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00abApparently the terrorists took\nadvantage of the fact that the majority of the elements were absent to attack\nthree young people who controlled a position in Anderamboukane\u00bb, says a local\nsource, who asked for anonymity, before adding that the attackers fled\nsouth-west pursued by fighters of the Movement for the Salvation of Azawad and\nthe Tuareg Imghads and Allies armed group (Gatia). In the locality of Anderamboukane,\nin the Menaka region, the positions are guarded by the MSA and the Gatia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This latter movement, which has\njust lost three men, is one of the signatories of the Peace Agreement resulting\nfrom the Algiers process. The attack took place between 3am and 4am this\nSaturday, January 6. Even if there is little information about the attackers,\naccording to a Malian military source, they are only the small terrorist groups\noperating in the area: \u00abThe same ones who act along the border between Mali and\nNiger\u00bb, it says. An inhabitant of the zone, reached by Sahelien.com says that\nthe attackers also destroyed the equipment of the Orange Mali network by shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent weeks, these\nself-defense movements and the Malian army have mounted a security system on\nthe initiative of the governor of the region, Daouda Ma\u00efga, to secure the\npeople and their families and their properties. But the mission is delicate.\nThis region is subject to attacks by the men of the jihadist Abu Walid\nal-Sahrawi. In addition, several attacks have been claimed by the Group of\nsupport to Islam and Muslims led by Iyad Ag Ghaly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00abIt has been a long time since\nthere was an attack in this locality. They took advantage of the temporary\nvacuum to act against isolated people\u00bb, says this fighter of the MSA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sahelien.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Anderamboukane, in the Menaka region, three fighters of the Tuareg Imghads and allies armed group (Gatia) lost their lives in an attack. The suspicions are directed towards the small terrorist groups that act along the border between Mali and Niger. \u00abApparently the terrorists took advantage of the fact that the majority of the elements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,62],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mali","8":"category-security"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5312,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions\/5312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}