Advertising Read moreA senior army official said troops had regained control of its positions in Bourem with the help of air support. "Unidentified armed groups had encircled the camp and roamed through the town," local resident Mahamoud Ould Mety said by telephone. We can hear more firing, the FAMA (Malian Armed Forces) are everywhere in the town in numbers," he added. The CSP framework said on Tuesday it had acted in "legitimate defence in the face of provocations by terrorists from the Malian army accompanied by the Wagner militia." The Framework groups worry that the pullout may give the junta a "pretext" to reoccupy zones which the peace accords had ceded from central control.
