2023-09-02 23:40:10
– One dead in a “terrorist attack with heavy weapons”
A 12-year-old child was killed in central Mali.
Published today at 01:40
The junta has demanded the departure of the United Nations peacekeeping mission (Minusma) by the end of the year.
AFP
A security crisis since 2012
A passenger, a “12-year-old boy”, was killed and two other people including a member of the crew injured in this attack which caused “significant damage” to the ship, according to Comanaf. The information was confirmed by a police source who spoke of an attack carried out by “terrorists”. Since 2012, Mali has been in the grip of a deep security crisis that started in the north and which has spread to the center of the country as well as to neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger.
After overthrowing President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta on August 18, 2020, the Malian junta demanded the withdrawal of the French Barkhane force, effective since 2022, then requested that of the United Nations peacekeeping mission (Minusma) by at the end of the year.
The junta has made sovereignty its mantra, broken the alliance with France and its partners once morest jihadism, to turn militarily and politically to Russia.
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