{"id":41213,"date":"2026-07-31T10:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=41213"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:28:24","slug":"russias-africa-corps-kills-mali-civilians-in-indiscriminate-attack","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/russias-africa-corps-kills-mali-civilians-in-indiscriminate-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s Africa Corps kills Mali civilians in &#8216;indiscriminate&#8217; attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Russian paramilitary group Africa Corps \u200bkilled eight civilians, including three children, in Mali last month, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Friday, during \u200cair strikes the campaign group called &#8220;unlawfully indiscriminate&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Established by Russia&#8217;s Defence Ministry, Africa Corps has largely taken over the mercenary Wagner Group&#8217;s activities on the continent and is backing operations by Mali&#8217;s military-led government against armed Islamist groups.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>A HRW investigation found that an aircraft identified by two Malian military sources \u200bas a Sukhoi Su-24 dropped at least two munitions on the village of Kyrnia in the central Mopti region \u200bon June 15.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>One strike hit near the home of the village chief, killing his wife, two \u2060of his children and another child, while a second strike hit a nearby cattle market, killing four men, HRW said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>It added \u200bthat no fighters from Jama&#8217;at Nusrat, the al Qaeda-linked group HRW said has controlled the village for the \u200bpast six years were believed to have been killed.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The strikes in Kyrnia did not appear to target specific military objectives, which would make them unlawfully indiscriminate,&#8221; the rights group said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16002,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-41213","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Russian paramilitary group Africa Corps \u200bkilled eight civilians","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41213","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\/41213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41214,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41213\/revisions\/41214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=41213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}