🇲🇷🇲🇱 Mauritania mediates with Tuareg separatists in Mali

According to several sources, the Mauritanian government has begun mediating between the government of Mali and the Tuareg separatist CMA, which controls significant territory in the northern half of the country.

There is currently a dispute between the two sides over who will assume control of a MINUSMA base in the northern city of Ber, as the UN force withdraws from the country. The Malian government wants its own forces to step in, while the separatist CMA claims this would violate a ceasefire agreement which stipulated that the two sides remain in their positions at the time of signing.

The ceasefire in question was signed in 2014 in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott with mediation by the hosting government.

https://twitter.com/HousseyneAg/status/1689976670407553025?t=99r1XRDMlWIoIHnYur1UIQ&s=19

🇲🇱🇳🇪🇧🇫 A new jihadist group in the Sahel?

According to an audio circulating on local WhatsApp, a new jihadi group (JNIM splinter) is born in the #Sahel, named Wahdat al-Muslimin (Muslim Unity) جماعة وحدة مسلمين, spox named Mouslimou Adam Abd al-Bara' calls for unity and an end to the war between JNIM and IS Sahel.

The narrator asks for an immediate cessation of the JNIM and IS Sahel conflict to "preserve the blood of Muslims, especially the ordinary Muslims who are killed day and night without any guilt, and to unite and save them...since local governments will kill them and have established fronts for this purpose led by Dozos, VDP, and Wagner."

Lastly, the narrator hopes for a response to the call "for everyone who wants unity and healing for Muslims."

https://twitter.com/MENASTREAM/status/1694747729627418853?t=hrSjZ1-dH-r7l3Mda3bOfw&s=19

#Mali 🇲🇱: #ISIS - #Sahel militants executed a local individual who claimed to be working for #German Forces 🇩🇪.

Militants who carried out the execution appeared to be armed with AK-103 rifles (captured from Malian Forces) and a possible East German MPi-KM-72 rifle.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1695122170945421391

#Mali (#Sahel) / #Russia 🇲🇱🇷🇺: "Coordination des mouvements de l'#Azawad" (#CMA) carried out a rocket attack on #Wagner PMC/#FAMa positions.

The group seemingly used a 122mm 9P132 Grad-P ("Partizan") single-tube launcher with 9M22M HE-FRAG rockets.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1703807057797726501

#Mali (#Sahel) / #Russia 🇲🇱🇷🇺: Militias of the "Coordination des mouvements de l'#Azawad" (#CMA) have captured a #Russian Orlan-10 UAV belonging to #Wagner PMC in #Gao Region.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1704202392835670397

#Russia / #Mali (#Sahel) 🇷🇺🇲🇱: #Azawad/#CMA militias released a new video of their mobilized units against #FAMa and #Wagner PMC.

The militias operate large quantity of technicals armed with heavy machine guns & autocannons including 12.7mm NSV/Kord and 23mm 2A14/ZU-23.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1704895590381871522

#Mali (#Sahel) 🇲🇱: A new photo allegedly posted by a Tuareg militia of #Azawad/#CMA in Northern Mali.

The militia is holding a rare RPG-32 "Nash-Shab" rocket launcher produced by #Russia 🇷🇺 & #Jordan 🇯🇴.
It's noteably fitted with GS-2R Day & Night Sight with laser range finder.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1706346347090112638