Mali's Tuareg rebels declared that the country's ruling junta "will fall" and that they intended to conquer the north, in an interview with AFP Wednesday just days after carrying out large-scale attacks targeting the nation's military government.
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Mali's military leader on Tuesday insisted the situation in his country was "under control" as he made his first public address since unprecedented large-scale attacks at the weekend destabilised his ruling junta.
Jihadists and allied Tuareg separatists in Mali have seized the key northern town of Kidal after coordinated attacks on strategic junta positions, local sources said on Monday.
Unprecedented attacks in Mali by Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists and Tuareg separatists who killed the defence minister and seized a key town are the dramatic result of a new alliance the two groups forged a year ago.
Mali has been plunged into an unprecedented security crisis after an alliance of Tuareg rebels and a jihadist group carried out synchronised attacks against the West African country's military leadership.
An Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group said Saturday that its fighters had joined forces with Tuareg rebels to launch attacks against the army across junta-ruled Mali.
Gunfire rocked several districts of the junta-ruled west African country of Mali on Saturday, including Kati, the home of military ruler General Assimi Goita, witnesses and a security source told AFP.