JNIM claims responsibility for attacks on UN forces in Mali

Bamako, Aug 15 (Prensa Latina) A radical Islamist group claimed Tuesday responsibility for two attacks on the UN peacekeeping forces in northern Mali, causing a soldier death and several wounded, reported the ABamako website.

August 15, 2023
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The Support for Islam and Muslims (JNIM) group acknowledged in a press release that such attacks were conducted by the time members of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) were leaving camps located in Timbuktu City.

JNIM stated in the document that in the first of Sunday’s aggressions on the road between the Timbuktu and Ber cities, four members of the UN peacekeepers were injured.

The second attack killed a MINUSMA soldier at a Malian army post near the Korioume town, southern Timbuktu, said the radical formation.

For months Mali, a country where extremist groups such as the Islamic State and the Al-Qaeda network have been present, has been living in a growing climate of insecurity.

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