On Monday, 2 Egyptian soldiers from the UN Peacekeeping Force (MINUSMA) were killed in Mali, near Mopti, and 4 others were injured in bomb explosion, according to a spokesperson for the UN mission.
"On Monday morning, a logistics convey hit an improvised explosive device in northern Mopti. 2 were killed and 4 were injured due to the explosion, according to the preliminary assessment," Olivier Salgado, the MINUSMA Spokesperson of the UN in Mali said on Twitter.
El-Ghassim Wane, the Secretary-General of the mission strongly condemned this attack, calling the Malian Authorities for sparing no effort to identify perpetrators of these attacks.
Simultaneously, the Malian Armed Forces announced the killing of two of its soldiers while repelling an attacking by armed groups in north Gao. On Twitter, They announced about killing 9 attackers.
The French Army announced, on Monday, the killing of a senior official in Al-Qaeda in Morocco in late February, about 100 km north of Timbuktu in Mali.
On Thursday, Sweden's 220 troops participating in the UN mission would leave Mali a year earlier than planned, i.e, in 2023 instead of 2024.
MINSMA, numbering about 12 thousand elements have been active in Mali in 2013, is currently the most international mission with casualties in the world.
Mali, a poor country in the heart of the coastal region, experienced two military coups in August 2020 and May 2021.
Contributed by Israa Farhan
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