VIGIL CONSILIUM
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Coverage · Central Sahel

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Contested zone

17 published markers carry this system value.

17 published markers 3 supply systems

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Locator — land outline from Natural Earth 110m (public domain); 17 places this record names, at the coordinates the module already publishes. No routes, boundaries, control or activity are drawn.

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Contested zone: 17 published markers in Sahel carry this system value. No system record has been written for it yet; everything on this page is derived from those markers and the records that name them.

Nodes

The published markers that carry this system value, by the module’s own priority. A note is the system record’s; a marker without one is a member by its own tag.

Routes and operators

Supply systems running through it

  • The AES escort corridor through Burkina FasoGeneral trade · 6 nodes · 2 documented disruptions · joined by its nodesThe escorted road on which Burkina Faso and Niger hand convoys to each other at Dori — and on which confederation fuel for Mali has travelled.
  • Central Mali sustainment and position regenerationMilitary sustainment · 8 nodes · 5 documented disruptions · joined by its nodesOne hub, a flooded delta and a set of camps that are easier to lose than to put back.
  • Northern military sustainmentMilitary sustainment · 6 nodes · 5 documented disruptions · joined by its nodesEvery force that has tried to hold the far north has had to hold one desert road — and the 2026 fighting was fought for exactly that.

Transmission chains through this system

Each step carries its own basis grade — Confirmed, Plausible exposure, Unconfirmed scenario — and a chain can only weaken from left to right.

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Events at its nodes

12 Sep 2026Participants describe a Ukrainian drone deployment with the Azawad Liberation Front20 August 2026A second documented Africa Corps civilian-harm case, and a second non-response4 – 10 Jul 2026July 2026 nationwide attacks and the battle for Anéfis30 Jun 2026One JNIM operation strikes positions in Burkina Faso and Niger on the same day25 Apr – May 2026April 2026 offensive — Kidal falls, the defence minister is killed1 Jul 2025JNIM attacks seven towns in western and central Mali in one morning19 Jun 2025Islamic State Sahel overruns the base at Banibangou13 Jun 2025The FLA ambushes a Malian–Russian logistics convoy on the road to Aguelhok1 – 6 Jun 2025Boulikessi is overrun twice and abandoned11 – 12 May 2025JNIM overruns the army base at Djibo and enters DiapagaJun – Dec 2023Mali expels MINUSMA14 Nov 2023The army retakes Kidal

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