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THE STANDARD By Reuters | April 3rd 2021 at 17:00:00 GMT +0300 A UN peacekeeper. [Reuters] The United Nations mission in Mali said on Friday that four peacekeepers were killed and several others injured in an attack on its base in the northern town of Aguelhok. Peacekeepers repelled the attack, carried out by several “heavily armed terrorists”, a U.N. mission statement said. Islamist insurgents are active in northern Mali. “A provisional toll shows four peacekeepers dead and wounded. He...

Monday, 15 March, 2021 - 10:15 Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune received Malian President Bah NDaw (APZ) Algiers - Boualem Goumrassa Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Sunday held talks in the capital Algiers with visiting Malian President Bah NDaw. The two presidents discussed bilateral ties, security issues, and the stalled 2015 Peace Agreement signed with the opposition. The meeting was attended by Interior Mini...

Last Updated: Indias Envoy To UN TS Tirumurti Calls For Strengthening Safety & Security Of Peacekeepers Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations T.S Tirumurti called for the strengthening of security & safety of UN peacekeepers at UNSC informal meet On Wednesday, India called for the strengthening of security and safety of UN peacekeepers and for bringing perpetrators to justice. Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations T.S Tirumurti attended the informal meet...

February 2021 Criminal groups abducted hundreds in north west, while ethnic and regional tensions ran high in south amid farmer-herder conflict; meanwhile, tensions rose in south east between govt and Biafra secessionists. Criminal groups in Feb reportedly killed at least 112 and kidnapped over 450 people, mostly in Katsina, Kaduna, Sokoto and Zamfara states (north west), but also in Niger state (Middle Belt). Notably, armed group 17 Feb abducted 42 students and school personnel in Niger state,...

Paris Perspective Issued on: France’s biggest overseas engagement, Operation Barkhane, has being ongoing since 2014. © AFP - DAPHNE BENOIT 8 min This edition of Paris Perspective looks at the global role of the French military, notably the anti-Islamist Operation Barkhane in Africas sweeping Sahel – a region as big as Europe, and right on its doorstep. Advertising French military c...

WFP Mali Country Brief, November 2020 Format USD 3.7 m cash-based transfers made USD 12.8 m six months (November 2020-April 2021) net funding requirements 520,742 m people assisted in NOVEMBER 2020 Operational Updates • Final results from the November 2020 food security assessment (Cadre Harmonise) indicated that in Mali, 437,000 men, women and children are currently food insecure (October-December 2020; Phases 3 to 4). This figure is projected to increase to 955,000 people during the lean se...

English News and Press Release on Mali about Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment and more; published on 18 Feb 2021 by ICRC

Mali: these crimes that can never be tried 16 February 2021By Boubacar Haidara, correspondent in Mali Since the outbreak of the Malian crisis in 2012, many serious human rights violations remain and are likely to remain unpunished. This is the bitter conclusion of the International Commission of Inquiry on Mali, whose report was finally published by the United Nations on January 29, seven months after its submission. Share Republish × You are free to republish this article both online and in...

English News and Press Release on Mali about Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding; published on 12 Feb 2021 by UN SG

UN chief says ‘complex attack’ against blue helmets in Mali may constitute war crime February 14, 2021 UN peacekeepers patrol the Menaka region in northeast Mali. — courtesy MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko NEW YORK — Secretary-General António Guterres condemned  on Saturday, a “complex attack” against the UN mission in the West African country of Mali An assault on Thursday by unidentified armed elements on a temporary operating base of t...