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Eight soldiers killed in clash with armed militants in Mali
2022-02-20
[AlArabiya] Eight Malian soldiers were killed, 14 others injured and four are missing following a clash with armed gunnies in the northeast of the West African nation on Friday, the defense ministry said.

The ministry said late on Friday that columns of armed snuffies on cycle of violences had pinned down the unit, but the army, backed by the air force, killed 57 of them in the tri-border area near 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...
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are struggling to contain armed gunnies linked to al-Qaeda and ISIS that control swathes of territory in the mostly non-existent border area of the West African Sahel that is larger than the size of Germany.

The attack comes as Mali’s ruling military junta on Friday asked La Belle France to withdraw troops from its territory "without delay", calling into question Gay Paree’ plan for a four- to six-month departure and highlighting the breakdown in relations between Gay Paree and its former colony.
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