types of materiel in the looting of army the actual quantity of cartridge cases in This similarity is logical because, from stockpiles in Ménaka and Gao in late attacks is of recent production. [...] In 2018, the same calibre of ammu- In August 2021, investigations docu- in northern Mali in 2012 were the most- nition produced in China in 2016 was mented extremist use of a 32 mm anti- used type of ammunition in indirect first recovered (Anders, n.d.). [...] The map high- recovered from the illicit sphere else- 2015, assailants attacked national army lights the sites of the three major attacks where in the subregion.26 positions in Youwarou, also in the Mopti during this period, and the inlays depict Generally, research on extremist region, reportedly killing two soldiers the headstamps of the Sudanese ammu- procurement in Mali from 2015 to 2022 (Diar. [...] Ammunition casings recovered from attacks of the Katibat Macina in 2015 but The monitoring of extremist-used arms extremist firing positions were largely not in any attacks after that suggests and ammunition in Mali from 2015 to consistent with ammunition already that assailants had obtained the ammu- 2022 allowed for the identification of known to be in illicit circulation in Mali nition specific. [...] It is a similar case with ammunition specific to the Katibat Map 4 shows the location of the the Sudanese cartridges from 2009, Macina and its sub-groups in the first initial diversion of this ammunition 2011, and 2013 in the attacks in central years (Anders, n.d.).
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