Published on : 11/07/2022 – 23:06
The 49 Ivorian soldiers arrested on Sunday at Bamako airport are considered “mercenaries” by the Malian authorities, announced Monday evening the spokesman for the transitional government, Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga. “It has been established that the forty-nine Ivorian soldiers were illegally on the national territory of Mali (…) in possession of weapons and ammunition of war, without a mission order or authorization”, declared Mr. Maiga in a statement read on national television.
