Peacekeepers under attack again in Mali, as one Egyptian blue helmet dies, another seriously injured
The United Nations The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned another fatal attack carried out against a peacekeeping convoy that left a ‘blue helmet’ from Egypt dead, and another seriously injured on Friday. An explosive device (IED) detonated under a truck that was part of a logistics convoy from the UN Stabilization Mission in the country, MINUSMA, at around 3pm in the vicinity of Tessalit, in the Kidal region, said the mission. “The Secretary-General expresses his deepest condolences to the bereaved family, as well as to the people and Government of Egypt”, ...