Suicide Bomber attacks U.N. base in Mali
Two U.N. peacekeepers were killed and nine others injured in
a suicide attack on a patrol base in northern Mali. MINUSMA (the UN
Multidimensional Stabilisation Mission in Mali) official said that both the
soldiers who died were from neighbouring Burkina Faso. A pick-up truck
laden with explosives drove into the UN camp in Ber, 50km (30 miles) east of
Timbuktu, on Saturday. Eye witness "There was no checkpoint. The bomber
was able to drive the vehicle right into the camp, among the tents, before
blowing himself up."
It comes after three other international peacekeepers - two
Bangladeshi, one Chadian - were injured when their vehicles drove over mines in
two separate incidents at the end of last week.
Troops from former colonial power France intervened in Mali
last year in an attempt to drive back Islamists who had taken advantage of an
uprising in the north of the West African country.
There have so far been three weeks of talks between the
Malian government and Tuareg separatist rebels in July and August, which were
mediated by the Algerian government. Talks aimed at drawing up a road map for
peace are due to resume in September.
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