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| Six dead in the attack against the G5 Sahel force HQ in Mali |
| 2018-06-30 |
| [AFRICANEWS] Six people were killed Friday in an attack on G5 Sahel joint force headquarters in Sévaré, central Mali, which also injured many people, hospital and military sources said. "I see only six bodies, the others are injured," said a hospital source, without further details. A military source confirmed a provisional corpse count of six, suggesting the possibility of casualties. The G5 is a taskforce of soldiers from Mali, Niger, 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... , Chad and Mauritania created last year to root out jihadist violence in West Africa’s semi-arid Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... Mali’s defence ministry earlier confirmed that Islamist holy warriors raided the headquarters on Friday afternoon, opening fire with rockets and guns and attempting to infiltrate the base. Ministry front man Boubacar Diallo told Rooters that Malian forces were securing the site. Violence by Islamist holy warriors has proliferated in the sparsely-populated Sahel in recent years, with groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... using central and northern Mali as a launchpad for attacks across the region. Western powers, including La Belle France and the United States, have provided significant funding to the G5 in a bid to beat back the jihadists. But the force has been slow to get off the ground, hobbled by delays disbursing the money and coordinating among the five countries. |
| Posted by:Fred |