The US embassy has ordered non-essential employees and their family members to leave Mali, “due to the increased risk of terrorist attacks in areas frequented by Westerners”.
In its statement, the State Department emphasized that the US Embassy “continues to have a limited capacity to provide emergency assistance to US citizens in Mali.”
“Terrorist and armed groups continue to plan kidnappings and attacks in Mali” and may target “nightclubs, hotels, restaurants, places of worship, foreign diplomatic missions and other locations frequented by Westerners,” according to the text.
Mali, a landlocked country in the heart of the Sahel, has been the scene of two military coups in August 2020 and May 2021. The political crisis is compounded by a serious security crisis after separatist insurgencies and bloody jihadist attacks broke out in the north in 2012.
On Wednesday, at least 15 military personnel and three civilians were killed in three coordinated attacks attributed to “terrorists”, one of which took place near the capital. Actions of the species reached eleven in one week.
Source: AMPE
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