UN peacekeepers killed in Mali attack
By Story Agencies, February 24, 2023At least three United Nations peacekeepers have been killed and five seriously wounded in central Mali when their convoy struck a roadside bomb, the latest blow for the world’s most dangerous UN peacekeeping mission.
The UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali said in a Twitter post that its convoy had hit an improvised explosive device on Tuesday.
Mali has been plagued by a conflict that began as a northern separatist movement in 2012 but has since devolved into a multitude of armed groups jockeying for control in the country’s central and northern regions.
Fighting has spread to neighbouring countries, including Burkina Faso and Niger, and the deteriorating security situation in the region. Xinhua