In the small hours of Saturday, 25 April 2026, a suicide car bomb tore through the residence of Mali’s Defence Minister, General Sadio Camara, in the garrison town of Kati. He died with his second wife and two children. By the end of the weekend, his army’s intelligence chief, General Modibo Koné, had also succumbed to wounds sustained in the …
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