Three Chadian peacekeepers killed in mine explosion in Mali

The United Nations mission in Mali (Minusma) announced Sunday May 10 the death of three Chadian peacekeepers in the explosion of a mine in the north of the West African country.

Two vehicles of the Chadian contingent of the UN during a routine patrol jumped on the mines, in Aguelok, town in the north of Mali. In a press release, the MINUSMA specifies that the assessment amounts to three peacekeepers killed and four seriously wounded.

Death of 3 MINUSMA peacekeepers today in the vicinity of Aguelhok at #Mali https://t.co/AslBixCK06 pic.twitter.com/2ORO8jreD5

"We will have to make every effort to identify and arrest those responsible for these terrorist attacks, in order to bring them to justice," said Minusma chief Mahamat Saleh Annadif, "bowing to the remains of the brave peacekeepers died for peace in Mali ".

Minusma has around 13,000 soldiers in Mali. 

Mali has been the theater since 2012 of a multifaceted crisis which has left thousands of people dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. 

If a peace agreement was signed in 2015 with the separatist rebels of the north, the country remains prey to the actions of jihadist groups, inter-community tensions, fomented or fanned by these same jihadists, and trafficking of all kinds undermining authority of the State, which is only exercised on parts of the territory.

The violence spread from the north to the center of the country, and to the neighbors of Niger and Burkina Faso.

With AFP

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