Mali’s Defence Minister General Sadio Camara has been confirmed dead — killed by a suicide car bomb that destroyed his residence in Kati alongside his second wife and two grandchildren. The Malian government confirmed his death on state television. Meanwhile, Kidal has fallen to the Azawad Liberation Front after Russia’s Africa Corps withdrew under a negotiated deal. But that is not the full story.
In this follow-up to yesterday’s breaking coverage, we examine: the confirmed facts 48 hours into this crisis, the Russia-Africa Corps official statement claiming Western intelligence agencies trained the attackers, Russia’s Foreign Ministry accusing Western security services of involvement, the SVR’s February 2026 allegations that France plotted regime change across the Sahel, the controversy surrounding military uniforms worn by the attackers, the 10,000–12,000 fighter estimate, the loss of Kidal, and what this means for the Alliance of Sahel States.
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After everything you’ve just heard, I need your honest take — no filters.
What hit you the hardest in this story?
Was it:
– The fact that sanctions were lifted… just weeks before his death?
– The fall of Kidal and the sudden withdrawal in the north?
– The scale of the attack — thousands of fighters, in uniform?
– Or the bigger question… who really has the capacity to pull this off?
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R.I.P. 😢
As long as you have the United States in the Europeans with army bases on the African continent you're going to keep continuing to have the same results you need to remove the West in the in the Europeans you need to close down the places they need to get it all for y'all land in order for y'all to conduct constructive business 💯👹🤡😭😤🤑
It all sounds like an inside working. Someone must have sold their birth right for a few pieces of silver.
France is responsible for, get rid of them.
This must be American backed. It is the one that kills senior government officials before a war.
West Elites have a History of Using Islamists to Crush their Enemies, and then it Backfires Back on them they never learn
Looks like western supported fingerprints, decapitation of power.
How does a car drive straight to the residence of a defense minister of a country?
ECOWAS is a NON FACTOR to security in the region. Their weakness is now being displayed in plain sight.
Atlanta, Ga
The KING of the West is the ONLY country that could pull this off. The MONEY that was paid to INSIDERS of Mali govt was MASSIVE.
What happened to Truth being Spoken???!!!?.😢
QUIET STORM!!! 😮🤔🤔
May his Soul rest in Eternal Peace.
Thank you for all you tried to do
For Our Mother Land.
It's all the above my brother it's many things are at play here and it's got Washington's and Paris finger prints all over this attack/coup 💯
It is sad what France is perpetrating in Africa.
May our ancestors of Africa homely received him. Rest well Defdr Camara✊✊
Let that internal involvement deserve a life jail.
Let the African commando rest with internal life..
Brilliant analysis 🥂
Then you go (higher)!!!!!!!!’
Africans are on the way out!
Do not they realise that Afrikaans are global indigenous people conne ted with other indigenous people by lineage?
May Allah unite the world
What is happening in the Sahel is an open secret.
We all know the west never wants Africans in charge of Africans resources
Making dua for Mali…❤
France is still mad
General Camara yhis is no time to rest. May your spirit avenge and revenge these wicked groups of evil murderers. Do not rest at all, gallant son of the soil.