MALI has arrested some current and former soldiers it accuses of complicity in recent jihadist advances.

Authorities say they are investigating collusion in a wave of attacks launched on April 25 that saw defence minister General Sadio Camara killed in the garrison town of Kati, just nine miles from the capital Bamako.

The al-Qaida-affiliated Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) and the Tuareg rebel Azawad Liberation Front have united to attack Malian forces, and say they plan to besiege Bamako.

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