The column stretches as far as the eye can see. Dozens of trucks carrying light tanks, armored vehicles or military ambulances parade on the video of around thirty minutes, shot in Sébénikoro, in the southwest suburbs of Bamako on January 17. “It's going to Guinea!” »»whose border is a hundred kilometers away, even enthuses the man who speaks on the video, Boubou Mabel Diawara, a Malian influencer well known for his support for the junta led by General Assimi Goïta.
If he does not really go back to the border, this convoy of Russian equipment delivered to Mali is unprecedented by its importance. Never, since the military putschists in power in Bamako linked themselves to Moscow, in 2021, such delivery of vehicles had been made. MIL combat and troop transport helicopters, as well as soukhoï or L-39 fighter planes, had already been delivered to the Malian authorities in early 2023, but not as many military vehicles.
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-This sending of equipment comes in full reorganization of the Russian system in Africa. Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, on December 8, 2024, Russia has been in a precarious position in Syria, a country which served it as a logistics hub to project its means on the continent, and has been forced to find replacement solutions, especially in Libya.
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