Tuareg FLA Launches Drone and Missile Strike on FAMa-Africa Corps Base at Anéfis

The Front de Libération de l'Azawad (FLA), a Tuareg separatist coalition that emerged as a successor to the CSP-PSD (itself a successor to the CMA Algiers Accord signatories), conducted a combined FPV drone and missile strike on a joint FAMa and Africa Corps military compound at Anéfis in Mali's Kidal region. The FLA characterized the strike as its seventh announced operation in March 2026, indicating a sustained asymmetric campaign in the Kidal theater. Both sides disputed damage and casualty claims; no independently verified figures are available. The FLA's escalating drone campaign reflects how former Algiers Accord signatories — displaced from Kidal after the November 2023 FAMa/Africa Corps offensive — are adapting to asymmetric resistance using commercially available drone platforms. The campaign poses a growing challenge to FAMa/Africa Corps control of Kidal region beyond the city itself.