Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) — JNIM

Zusammenfassung

JNIM was formed in March 2017 from the groups the army had been fighting since 2012, and the relationship has run through three phases. Until 2022 the army fought with French and UN forces beside it and lost outlying posts while holding the towns. From 2022, with Russian personnel integrated at the point of main effort and armed drones arriving from Türkiye, it went over to hub defence with intervention columns — the model that retook Kidal from the CSP in November 2023. From September 2025 JNIM changed what it attacks: the declared fuel blockade, the burning of tanker convoys on the corridors and the April–July 2026 offensives against Kayes, Sévaré and the western belt aim at the roads, the economy and the columns between the hubs rather than at the hubs, and no overrun outlying camp has been documented as re-established since mid-2025 — Boulikessi in June 2025 and Dioura in September 2026 are the cases. Both sides have a documented civilian-harm record: JNIM's blockades and mass-casualty assaults, and the army's joint operations with Russian partners, of which Moura in March 2022 remains the gravest documented case. Neither side has offered the other terms the other will accept, which is the state-level record's subject rather than this one's.

Warum es wichtig ist

It is the relationship every other Sahel record runs through. The fuel blockade, the Russian presence, the AES joint force and the humanitarian access problem are all consequences of how these two forces fight, and a reader who takes the state's refusal to negotiate as the whole story misses that the army's method — hold the hubs, relieve by column — is what JNIM's 2025–26 campaign was designed to exhaust.

Verwandte Ereignisse

• Der Krieg verlagert sich nach Zentralmali 2015 – 2019

  Military · Humanitarian

• Gründung von JNIM 2. März 2017

  Militärisch · Politisch

• Die Armee erobert Kidal zurück 14. Nov. 2023

  Militärisch · Territoriale Veränderung

• Boulikessi wird zweimal überrannt und aufgegeben 1. – 6. Juni 2025

  Militärisch · Territoriale Veränderung

• JNIM verhängt eine landesweite Treibstoffblockade Sep. 2025 – andauernd

  Economic · Military · Humanitarian

• Offensive im April 2026 — Kidal fällt, der Verteidigungsminister wird getötet 25. Apr. – Mai 2026

  Military · Territorial change · Leadership change

• Landesweite Angriffe im Juli 2026 und die Schlacht um Anéfis 4. – 10. Juli 2026

  Militärisch

• Ein umstrittener Angriff auf eine Garnison in San und zwei unvereinbare Darstellungen davon 9. August 2026

  Militärisch

• Das Lager in Dioura wird überrannt und nicht wiederhergestellt 10. Sep. 2026

  Militärisch

Organisationen

Strukturen, über die diese Beziehung wirkt. Keine Parteien der Beziehung — die Parteien sind die beiden Akteure oben.

Systeme, von denen es abhängt

Kanonische Logistikeinträge. Sie enthalten die Korridore, Knoten, Abhängigkeiten und Störungsgeschichte, auf denen diese Beziehung beruht und die sie nicht wiederholt.

Orte

Markierungen, die dieses Modul bereits veröffentlicht. Dieser Eintrag fügt keine eigene geografische Genauigkeit hinzu.

Was unbekannt bleibt

• Neither force publishes strengths, losses or an account of individual engagements; casualty and materiel claims from both sides are carried as claims in the event records and not reconciled here.
• Whether the non-re-establishment of overrun camps since mid-2025 is inability or a deliberate consolidation is not established in public.
• JNIM's internal command relationship between the central-Mali and northern components is described in analysis rather than documented, and this record does not assume a single decision-maker on the JNIM side.