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In the midst of this chaos, Washington began considering returning to Mali, this time through direct military intervention.
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From Anviv in the north, to the roads leading to Bamako in the south, defeats are accumulating around the Malian army and its Russian ally, while armed groups expand and the country turns into an open arena between separatists, terrorist groups, mercenaries and regional forces.
According to security sources who spoke to Reuters, a convoy that included more than 200 Russian fighters and about 100 Malian soldiers was subjected to successive attacks during its advance towards Anviv, despite the air support provided by Niger.
The Malian army used some of this information to carry out strikes, while Washington sought to obtain overflight and reconnaissance rights within the Malian airspace.
Thus, Washington is not entering an empty field, but rather a country within which the Azawad war intersects with a terrorist organization, an economic blockade, a conflict between Al-Qaeda and ISIS, and a direct Russian presence.
Washington is not satisfied with this, as it urges the governments of the region to purchase American military equipment and services, which reflects a desire to capitalize on Russia’s decline to regain a security foothold within the Sahel.
But moving from intelligence information to direct strikes will mean a radical shift, and may place American and Russian forces in one theater of operations, imposing arrangements to prevent friction similar to the mechanism established by Washington and Moscow during the Syrian war.
The Africa Corps, directly under the Russian Ministry of Defense, replaced Wagner, and the number of its members in Mali increased, according to estimates published by Le Monde newspaper, to between two thousand and 2,500 fighters.
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Russia arrived in Mali as an alternative capable of achieving what France had failed to do, and the military junta pledged to restore sovereignty and extend state authority over the entire country.
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