Mali’s northern Tuareg rebels said on Sunday that they had seized another military base from the Malian army following fighting in the north of the country.
Mohamed Elmaouloud Ramadane, a spokesman for the CMA told Reuters on Sunday that they had taken control of the Bamba military base in the Gao region. He gave no further details. The CMA attack on Bamba, following those on military bases in Lere, Dioura and Bourem in the past weeks’ signals intensifying clashes as both sides seek to control territory in the desert centre and north of the WestThe Malian army has also come under attacks from insurgents linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State.
A Tuareg uprising in 2012 was hijacked by Islamist groups that were later driven out of the major towns by a French-led intervention in 2013.