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Mali: ten soldiers killed in jihad attack

7 Marzo 2017 BreakingNews @en di

At least 10 soldiers from Mali have been killed durign an attack on a military base neightbouring Burkina Faso. The responsible for the attack are probably jihadists linked to Al Qaeda. Since 2012 the northern part of Mali is under jihadist’s and Tuareg rebel’s control.

Five Niger soldiers killed by heavily armed motorbikers

10 Novembre 2016 BreakingNews @en di

Heavily armed gunmen riding motor bikes and other vehicles raided a village and killed five soldiers in Niger near the border with Mali early on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said, amid signs of a growing Islamist insurgency in the region. Dozens of attackers entered Banigabou, about 20 km (12 miles) from the frontier before dawn – gunshots rang out for two hours, said residents. The ministry did not name the raiders, though Islamist militants based in Mali’s desert north have been pushing south toward its capital and over borders in the fragile Sahel region into Niger and Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso’s peacekeepers soldiers will be withdrawed from Sudan by July 2017

7 Novembre 2016 BreakingNews @en di

Burkina Faso has notified the United Nations that it will withdraw soldiers deployed as peacekeepers in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region by July next year, the foreign minister said late on Friday. The West African nation, which has a battalion of 850 soldiers serving in the nearly 14,000 troop strong U.N.-African Union hybrid mission, has suffered a series of deadly attacks at home amid a rise in Islamist militant violence. Burkina Faso’s government said in May that it would seek to bring some troops home to help reinforce domestic security.