DEVELOPING STORY<\/strong>DEVELOPING STORY, <\/span><\/p>\n Camara\u2019s house in the garrison town of Kati came under attack amid simultaneous attacks across the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 26 Apr 2026<\/span>26 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Mali\u2019s Defence Minister General Sadio Camara has been killed amid coordinated attacks on military sites across the country, sources told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n The news on Sunday came a day after his residence in the garrison town of Kati came under attack during the simultaneous attacks launched by an al-Qaeda affiliate and Tuareg rebels on Saturday.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n Camara was a central figure in the military government that seized power after back-to-back coups in 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was one of the most influential figures within the ruling military leadership and had been seen by some as a possible future leader of Mali,\u201d said Al Jazeera\u2019s Nicolas Haque, who has reported extensively from Mali.<\/p>\n \u201cHis death is a major blow to the country\u2019s armed forces.\u201d<\/p>\n Haque said attackers carried out a suicide car bomb assault on Camara\u2019s residence in Kati, a heavily fortified military town about 15km (9 miles) northwest of the capital, Bamako.<\/p>\n \u201cKati is considered one of the most secure locations in the country, yet fighters from the al-Qaeda-linked Jama\u2019at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, along with Tuareg fighters from the Liberation Front of Azawad, were able to launch the attack,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Armed men also attacked several other locations across Mali, including Bamako, as well as Gao and Kidal in the north, and the central city of Sevare.<\/p>\n \u201cAs we speak, people in the garrison town of Kidal can still hear heavy gunfire and loud explosions,\u201d Haque added. \u201cThis remains an ongoing operation more than 24 hours after it began.\u201d<\/p>\n Interim President Assimi Goita has come under pressure since the offensive, with analysts saying the authorities appeared to have been caught off guard by the latest wave of violence.<\/p>\n Haque said Goita was \u201calive and well in a secure location\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen the attack took place, he was moved to safety, so he remains in command of the military,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The African Union, the secretary-general of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the United States Bureau of African Affairs condemned the attacks across Mali.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Camara\u2019s house in the garrison town of Kati came under attack amid simultaneous attacks across the country. Published On 26 Apr 202626 Apr 2026 Mali\u2019s Defence Minister General Sadio Camara has been killed amid coordinated attacks on military sites across the country, sources told Al Jazeera. The news on Sunday came a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2017-06-08T131939Z_1189275883_RC11B0FE7F20_RTRMADP_3_GULF-QATAR-JAZEERA-1714943623.jpg?resize=96%2C96&quality=80)
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