Qualla: Battle of Konna https://qualla.com/battle-of-konna en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Konna https://qualla.com/battle-of-konna Battle of Konna: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-konna/ It began with a bus. Fighters disguised as ordinary passengers rode into a Malian army checkpoint on the edge of Konna, and when soldiers boarded to search them, the men opened fire. More attackers poured in behind. By the time the fighting in the town subsided, around twenty-five Malian soldiers were dead and the army had fallen back to its base, leaving Konna, and several armored vehicles, to the insurgents. It was January 2013. The fall of this small fishing town on the Niger, roughly sixty kilometers from the garrison at Mopti, would set in motion a foreign war and decide the fate of central Mali.

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