Posted on 11/04/2019 7:57:04 AM PST by robowombat
New Explosion Reported in Mali, At Least Two Servicemen Killed
Sputnik News
15:41 03.11.2019(updated 17:59 03.11.2019)
The day before, the Elysee Palace said in a statement that a French soldier was killed that day in the morning in Mali as an explosive device detonated near his armoured vehicle.
Two Malian soldiers were killed and six more injured as a result of a blast of an improvised explosive device in the central part of the country, the national Armed Forces said on Sunday in a statement.
"On Saturday, November 2, 2019, during the patrol mission, a vehicle of the Malian Armed Forces was hit by a blast of an improvised explosive device in the settlement of Douvombo near the town of Bandiagara (Mopti province). Two people were killed, six more injured," the statement said.
The injured were evacuated with a military helicopter to a hospital in the town of Sevare.
A large-scale "terrorist attack" on a military post in Mali on Friday has claimed the lives of 49 soldiers and one civilian with Daesh* claiming responsibility for the attack.
Next day, the Elysee Palace said that a French soldier was killed as an explosive device detonated near his armoured vehicle.
The situation in Mali was destabilized in 2012 when the Tuareg militants seized vast territories in the northern part of the country. The conflict escalated even more over the activities of Islamists, forces loyal to former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as well as French interference.
The tensions have significantly de-escalated since then, however sporadic clashes are taking place so far.
Africa wins again.
If the usurper was still in power we’d be taking in thousands of refugees from that 3rd world shit hole.
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‘Beat’ me to it....<:
When reading the headline my first thought was how many do WE get and when? What chicken processing or meat packing plant needs more cheap labor?
RIP.
Didn't Hussein and Hillary blow him up?
Yep, AWA as we used to say...sounds like you have tread some ground there?
NOV 4, 2019 4:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER
This is a global war in which essentially the entire world has decided that honest analysis of its motivating ideology is wrong, and must never be done, on pain of demonization, ostracism, deplatforming, and worse. Is that any way to win a war? Of course not.
Militants kill 54 in attack on Mali army post, ISIS claims responsibility
Militants kill 54 in attack on Mali army post, ISIS claims responsibility
“Heavily armed unidentified men attacked around noon. The attack started with shellfire,” government spokesman Yaya Sangare said.
BAMAKO, Mali — At least 53 soldiers and one civilian have been killed in an attack on an army post in northern Mali, the government said, in one of the deadliest strikes against the West African country’s military in recent memory.
Islamic state claimed responsibility for the attack via its Amaq news agency on Saturday, without providing evidence.
The militant group has posted dozens of claims of responsibility for attacks in several countries since U.S. special forces killed its previous leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi last weekend.
The authorities first reported the attack in Indelimane, Menaka region, on Friday, but gave a lower provisional death toll.
“Heavily armed unidentified men attacked around noon. The attack started with shellfire ... Then they retreated toward Niger,” government spokesman Yaya Sangare told Reuters on Saturday.
He added the death toll remained provisional as corpses were undergoing identification, and that the army was undertaking a combing operation on the ground with support from international forces, including French troops from the Barkhane operation and U.N. peacekeepers.
“The dispatched reinforcements found 54 bodies including one civilian, 10 survivors, and found considerable material damage,” Sangare said on Twitter earlier on Saturday.
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France said one of its soldiers there had died after his vehicle hit an improvised explosive device, according to a statement by the French presidency.
The attack follows jihadist raids in late September that underscored the increasing reach and sophistication of armed groups operating in the region.
From their stronghold in Mali, groups with al Qaeda and Islamic State links have been able to fan out across the Sahel, destabilizing parts of Niger and Burkina Faso.
Thirty-eight Malian soldiers were killed on Sept. 30 in coordinated attacks on two army bases in central Mali, which has slipped from government control despite the presence of the French army and other international forces.
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