UN Peacekeeper Killed in Mine Blast in Northeastern Mali

© AFP 2023 / SOULEYMANE AG ANARAMalian police patrol with German UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA) peacekeping forces on May 18, 2016 in Gao, northern mali
Malian police patrol with German UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA) peacekeping forces on May 18, 2016 in Gao, northern mali - Sputnik International, 1920, 19.06.2022
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - One peacekeeper of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) has died in a mine explosion near the city of Kidal in northeastern Mali, the mission said on Sunday.
"A peacekeeper on a MINUSMA Force security patrol died today in Kidal after being seriously injured by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion while conducting a search and detect operation," the mission said in a statement.
MINUSMA head and the special representative of the UN Secretary-General for Mali, El-Ghassim Wane, strongly condemned the attack and called it a "terrible news that will add to the long list of our colleagues who died while serving in Mali."
Senegalese soldiers of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali MINUSMA (United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali) patrol on foot in the streets of Gao, on July 24, 2019 - Sputnik International, 1920, 01.06.2022
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MINUSMA has operated in Mali since 2013, when the UN Security Council established that political stability in Mali after a 2012 armed conflict between government forces, separatists and Islamist groups required international intervention. Since its formation, MINUSMA has registered over 200 fatalities, which is one of the highest rates among the UN peacekeeping missions.
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