🇲🇱⚡️- The FLA has captured soldiers belonging to the junta in Anéfis.

🇲🇱🇷🇺⚡️- A few dozen FAMa soldiers were captured in Anéfis. FLA sources claim the Africa Corps near Anéfis has surrendered and is negotiating for a safe passage to Gao.

🇲🇱🇷🇺⚡️- Correction: the FLA is now claiming it was not a helicopter but an Su-24 fighter jet that was downed near Gao. FLA sources claim the jet was shot and damaged near Anéfis during the battle before going down near Gao on its way back.

🇲🇱⚡️- Junta forces and their allies did not sabotage any of their equipment in Anéfis according to local reports. A drone command station, the second one after the Bayraktar TB-2 station seized weeks ago near Kidal, was captured by the FLA.

🇲🇱⚡️- The battle is still ongoing in Gao.

🇲🇱⚡️- The smoke seems to originate from Gao's international airport.

🇲🇱🇷🇺⚡- BREAKING: Russia orders the evacuation of non essential personnel from Mali, Sputnik reports.

🇲🇱⚡- FLA + JNIM are clashing with the Malian military, FAMa, at various positions across the Mopti region, central Mali, as well.

🇲🇱🇷🇺 - Footage allegedly shows a Russian airstrike on Anefis, northern Mali.

🇲🇱🇷🇺 - Scenes from Gao, northern Mali. FLA + JNIM is seen clashing with the Malian military, FAMa, and Russia's African Corps.

🇲🇱🇷🇺⚡- Large FLA + JNIM convoys entering the city of Anefis, northern Mali.

🇲🇱⚡️- Most of the initial battles have seemingly stopped according to local reports. Sévaré was successfully defended by the FAMa and Africa Corps. Gao still has sporadic firefights. Anéfis fell to the FLA, and Aguelhoc fell silent earlier.

New skirmishes are now reported in Konna, Kouakourou, lere and Bamba.

🇲🇱⚡️- The JNIM claimed to have seized Konna.

🇲🇱🇷🇺⚡️- JNIM+FLA sources have claimed the Africa Corps in Aguelhoc, Anéfis and Gao have attempted to negotiate conditional retreats from their positions, as they had done after the initial offensive earlier this year.

To note, Africa Corps has still not confirmed they had reached agreements to retreat from several bases following Kidal's fall, despite video evidence of their convoys abandoning their camps.

🇲🇱🇷🇺⚡️- According to locals, the Africa Corps conducted air raids on numerous insurgent positions this morning. Airstrikes were reported on JNIM+FLA troops in Anéfis, Gao and Sévaré.

A Tuareg civilian nomadic camp in Timbuktu's region was also struck.

🇲🇱⚡️- The FAMa have issued a statement saying the situation was "fully under control" in northern Mali, precising insurgents were repelled in Gao and Sévaré. No data was given on the other seven locations where the FLA+JNIM carried out attacks, nor have they commented on their captured soldiers in Anéfis.

🇺🇸⚡️- For the first of our 4th of July celebration posts, one of our admins favorite passages from Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585–1828 by Walter A. McDougall.

American Exceptionalism is the rule of reality.

🇲🇱⚡️- The junta's outlets claim the attack on Kéniéroba's prison center was repelled.

🇲🇱⚡️- FLA+JNIM outlets claim they successfully broke out numerous prisoners from Kéniéroba's prison. The attached video shows the prison in the early hours of the morning from the point of view of a JNIM fighter.

🇲🇱🇹🇷⚡️- A cargo plane belonging to the Turkish Air Force did a quick back and forth on July 2nd, landing in Sévaré's air strip.

🇺🇸⚡️- New York Democrat Mariama James gives her thoughts on the DSA calling them a White Supremacist "I know better than you" organization trying to impose themselves on non-Whites.

Should be noted that the GOP is making similar arguments.