Banned Russian Submunitions Found After Mali’s Military Announces Airstrikes

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Unexploded Russian-made cluster munitions have been discovered in northern Mali following military airstrikes. Mali is a party to an international convention banning such submunitions, highlighting concerns over their use in ongoing conflict.

This investigation is a collaboration between Bellingcat and Jeune Afrique. You can read Jeune Afrique’s article in French here. Unexploded Russian-made cluster munition bomblets, as well as damage consistent with bomblet impacts, have been found in a village in northern Mali – despite the West African country being a state party to the Convention on […] The post Banned Russian Submunitions Found After Mali’s Military Announces Airstrikes appeared first on bellingcat.