They Hit Mali First. Now They're Begging After Burkina Faso and Niger Stepped In

They thought hitting Mali meant hitting one country. They were wrong. On April 25th, 2026. Before dawn broke over Bamako — six cities were struck simultaneously. Mali's Defence Minister was taken out in his own home. The capital was on fire. But before the smoke cleared, Burkina Faso and Niger were already moving. The AES joint force launched airstrikes. A vow was made at a funeral. A thousand ordinary citizens took to the streets of Niamey not summoned, not organised just there. And now? The ones who came for Mali are begging. In this video, STATE decodes: — Who planned this operation and how they coordinated across 1,500km — The full story of how General Sadio Camara fell — Who supplied the groups that hit Mali — and the evidence on both sides — How Burkina Faso and Niger responded when it mattered most — What this moment reveals about the AES as a unified force They hit Mali first. They didn't count on the brotherhood. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STATE is Africa's geopolitical intelligence channel. New deep-dive videos every week. Subscribe so you never miss a STATE briefing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SOURCES • Al Jazeera — Mali's Defence Minister Sadio Camara killed during coordinated attacks, April 26, 2026 • Wikipedia — 2026 Mali offensives (compiled from AFP, Reuters, RFI, France 24) • Wikipedia — Killing of Sadio Camara • Africanews — Alliance of Sahel States confirms joint airstrikes in Mali, May 1, 2026 • Africa Center for Strategic Studies — Attacks in Mali underscore worsening security trajectory • NPR — Armed groups including jihadists launch widespread attacks on Mali government, April 25, 2026 • Washington Post — Militants launch coordinated attacks across Mali, April 25, 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH ME: Instagram →   / capt_prosper   X (Twitter) → https://x.com/Capt_Prosper