{"id":17005,"date":"2026-04-28T09:31:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/17005\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:31:23","slug":"tuareg-rebels-and-jihadists-in-control-of-key-mali-town-after-offensive-france-24-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/17005\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuareg rebels and jihadists in control of key Mali town after offensive \u2022 FRANCE 24 English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Tuareg rebels and jihadists in control of key Mali town after offensive \u2022 FRANCE 24 English\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kLQYBeN26F8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nTuareg rebels and jihadists in control of key Mali town after offensive \u2022 FRANCE 24 English<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTuareg separatists and their jihadist allies in Mali have seized control of the key northern town of Kidal after coordinated attacks on strategic junta positions, an ally of the local governor and local sources said Monday. Two days of fierce fighting between the army and jihadists allied with the Tuaregs have plunged the junta-led west African country into uncertainty over the military government&#8217;s future. Defence Minister Sadio Camara has been killed and military ruler General Assimi Goita, who led the coup in 2020 that brought the junta to power, has not been seen or spoken publicly since fighting began at the weekend.<br \/>\n#Mali #Kidal #Tuareg<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuareg rebels and jihadists in control of key Mali town after offensive \u2022 FRANCE 24 English Tuareg separatists&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33,20079,20118,22,23,20,21,21118,650,20612,20080,20869,13327,31,2636,17,52,21119],"class_list":{"0":"post-17005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france24","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-bamako","10":"tag-fla","11":"tag-france-24","12":"tag-france-24-english","13":"tag-france24","14":"tag-france24-english","15":"tag-goita","16":"tag-infos","17":"tag-jihadists","18":"tag-junta","19":"tag-kidal","20":"tag-mali","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-rebels","23":"tag-russia","24":"tag-terrorism","25":"tag-tuaregs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116481648666949654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}