location: Menaka
notes: Grenade thrown at the MSA HQ, no casualties, two gunmen left their motorbike behind after being subjected to gunfire by MSA fighters. Attack seems to have occurred as part of fighting between ethnic Doosaak linked to MSA supported by Tuaregs linked to GATIA and ethnic Fulanis reportedly close to jihadist groups, especially Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa, in Menaka region 5-10 July.
target_text: location: Menaka, fatalities: 0