Mali: Islamic jihadis raid military base,
kill over 30 soldiers
Jihadis yet again prove more powerful than national forces.
Insurgents overrun Mali base, killing dozens of soldiers, sources say
Straits Times, June 2, 2025:
BAMAKO – An Al Qaeda-linked rebel group active in West Africa’s Sahel region has claimed responsibility for an attack on a military base in Mali on Sunday that two sources said had killed more than 30 soldiers.
More than 400 soldiers have reportedly been killed by insurgents since the start of May in bases and towns in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, an unstable region prone to coups.
The jihadist group, Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), said in a statement on Sunday that it had seized the base in Boulkessi in central Mali, near the border with Burkina Faso.
The Malian army said it had been forced to pull back.
“Many men fought, some until their last breath, to defend the Malian nation,” its statement said, without giving any casualty numbers.
A spokesperson did not respond to a question about the toll, but two security sources said more than 30 soldiers had been killed.
A municipal source at Mondoro, near the base, said the insurgents “cleared the camp” and that there were many dead.
Videos shared online showed dozens of insurgents overrunning the base. One showed militants stepping on the bodies of soldiers who had fallen between sandbags. Reuters could not immediately authenticate the videos….
Uganda: Jihad suicide bomber kills herself and another jihadi near a Roman Catholic shrine
Looks as if she detonated too soon.
Two suspected Uganda rebels killed in Kampala blast, officials say
Reuters, June 3, 2025:
KAMPALA, June 3 (Reuters) – An explosion killed two suspected rebels including a female suicide bomber near a Roman Catholic shrine in Uganda’s capital Kampala on Tuesday morning, but no other people were reported hurt, authorities said.
Did God reach this woman and convince her to suicide herself and her accomplice rather than the Christians? Is she a heroine or a clumsy fool?
The Daily Monitor and New Vision newspapers reported that the blast near the Munyonyo Martyrs’ Shrine in the south of the city had killed at least two people as Ugandans assembled to celebrate Martyrs’ Day, which commemorates Christians who were killed for their faith in the 19th century.
The two assailants were thought to be linked Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Congo-based rebel group allied to Islamic State (IS) which claimed responsibility for multiple bombings in 2021, Ugandan army spokesman Chris Magezi told Reuters….
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