#Saudi media outlet Asharq News reports that a PMC #Wagner Group unit was "besieged" in #Mali near the #Niger border by an #Al_Qaeda-linked terrorist cell.

Al-Qaeda has clashed several times this year with Wagnerite mercenaries deployed in Mali, with Al-Qaeda even claiming at one point to have captured a mercenary (no photographic evidence was ever shown).

It is not known whether this was a patrol, since there is considerable #jihadist activity on the Mali-Niger border, or whether these forces were going to Niger to reinforce the junta in the face of a possible #ECOWAS military intervention.
#Africa #Politics #Terrorism
🔗https://nitter.42l.fr/AsharqNewsBrk/status/1688266461712699392