NEW YORK: The UN Security Council has condemned a series of attacks by Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists and Tuareg separatists that began late last month, and called for those responsible to be held accountable.
The council “condemned in the strongest terms the heinous and cowardly terrorist attacks in several locations across Mali on 25 April 2026 and in the days that followed,” it said in a statement.
The council also “underlined the need to hold perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of these reprehensible acts of terrorism accountable and bring them to justice.”
Mali has been gripped by uncertainty since the armed groups teamed up in April to target positions of the ruling junta.
A coordinated deadly offensive on April 25 and 26 targeted strategic towns and killed the country’s influential defense minister.
