BAMAKO, Mali — The United Nations says a peacekeeper from Chad was killed and five other peacekeepers were seriously wounded in a pair of attacks in Mali. The peacekeeper was killed and four colleagues wounded on Sunday when their convoy struck an explosive device in Aguelhok in the northern region of Kidal, U.N. spokesman Olivier Salgado said Monday. A peacekeeper from Togo was severely wounded in a separate attack when unidentified gunmen assaulted a temporary U.N. operating base in Bandiagara in Mali’s increasingly troubled central region. The peacekeeping force in Mali is one of the deadliest in U.N. history, with more than 200 forces killed as of the end of August. Extremists quickly exploited the power vacuum, leading to a French-led military effort that ousted the jihadists from power in 2013.

Source: Washington Post October 07, 2019 08:48 UTC