{"id":33028,"date":"2026-04-26T13:50:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33028"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:43:20","slug":"mali-army-bases-hit-in-large-scale-attacks-claimed-by-al-qaeda-linked-militants","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/mali-army-bases-hit-in-large-scale-attacks-claimed-by-al-qaeda-linked-militants\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali army bases hit in large-scale attacks claimed by al Qaeda-linked militants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mali&#8217;s army said in a statement it had killed &#8220;several hundred&#8221; assailants and repelled the assault, which hit \u200cmultiple sites in or near the capital, Bamako. It said a large-scale sweep operation was underway in Bamako, the nearby barracks town of Kati and elsewhere in the gold-producing country.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear how many soldiers or civilians were killed in the attacks. In a statement read out on state television on Saturday evening, the government Spokesperson, Issa Ousmane Coulibaly, said 16 people had been injured.<\/p>\n<p>Coulibaly said the situation was completely under control in all \u200baffected areas. Bamako authorities announced an overnight curfew lasting three days.<\/p>\n<p>Al Qaeda-linked Jama&#8217;at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin issued a statement, published by SITE Intelligence Group, claiming responsibility for attacks \u200bin Kati, at the Bamako airport and in localities further north, including Mopti, Sevare and Gao.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33040,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-33028","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"An al Qaeda affiliate and Tuareg rebels claimed responsibility on Saturday for coordinated attacks across Mali, in one of the boldest operations \u200binsurgents have mounted in their campaign against the military-led government.","published_date":"","news_description":"An al Qaeda affiliate and Tuareg rebels claimed responsibility on Saturday for coordinated attacks across Mali, in one of the boldest operations \u200binsurgents have mounted in their campaign against the military-led government.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33030,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33028\/revisions\/33030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=33028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}