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20 U.N. Peacekeepers Wounded in Mali Attack
[AnNahar] Around 20 United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
 peacekeepers were maimed in an attack on their base in central Mali on Wednesday, a U.N. spokesperson said, offering a provisional toll.

Militants attacked a temporary base near Kerena, a village in the war-torn center of the Sahel state, at around 7 am.

Olivier Salgado, the front man for the U.N.'s 13,000-strong MINUSMA mission in Mali, said the position was "targeted by direct and indirect fire."

Mali has been struggling to contain a jihadist insurgency which first emerged in in the north of the country 2012, and has since spread to the center of the country and to neighboring Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
 and Niger.

Thousands of soldiers and civilians have been killed and hundreds of thousands of more have had to flee their homes.

Central Mali is one of the epicenters of the regional conflict, where attacks on soldiers and ethnic killings are common.
There are two groups a-jihading in Mali: Ansarul Islam, according to the latest source I’ve found, is an apparently unaffiliated Fulani group which emerged near the Mali border of Burkina Faso in December 2016, and JNIM (Group to Support Islam and Moslems), the unification of Ansar Dine, the Macina Liberation Front, and Al-Mourabitoun, which has sworn allegiance to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. So one of them must have done it.

Posted by: trailing wife 2021-02-11
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