Eight Tuareg Commanders are killed by Mali’s Military Regime’s Drone strikes in the Country’s North

According to a rebel source on Sunday, eight Tuareg rebel leaders were murdered in the northern Mali town of Tinzaouatine by drone attacks carried out by the military authorities. It was the first time so many Taureg leaders have been murdered in one attack since the uprising began in 2012.

In a statement, spokesman Mohamed Elmaouloud Ramadane said, “On December 1, 2024, several Azawad leaders were martyred in Tinzaouatine, near the Algerian border, by several synchronized drone strikes.”

The separatists refer to northern Mali as Azawad. Eight Tuareg chiefs are named in the separatists’ declaration, with Fahad Ag Al Mahmoud, the Secretary General of the Gatia, an armed Tuareg group, being the most well-known.

Since important individuals who have influenced their communities are among the dead, it is obvious that northern Malian groups have suffered a significant loss,” said Rida Lyammouri, senior fellow at the Moroccan think tank Policy Center for the New South. “But the setback doesn’t mean the fight is over; it will only heighten the anti-sentiment toward Bamako.”

“With these airstrikes, the junta has shown that it is not afraid to use the air assets (drones) it acquired whenever it can,” he said.

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