Alatona Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/alatona/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 06 Jan 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Alatona Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/alatona/ 32 32 Roadside bomb and ambush kills five soldiers in Mali https://jjcornish.com/2020/01/roadside-bomb-and-ambush-kills-five-soldiers-in-mali/ Mon, 06 Jan 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/01/roadside-bomb-and-ambush-kills-five-soldiers-in-mali/ A roadside bomb planted  in central Mali has led to the deaths  five soldiers. Some were on the  refueling truck blown up by the device and others died when the convoy come under attack by jihadis lying in wait. The truck was travelling to Alatona near Mali’s border with Mauritania. Thousands of soldiers and civilians […]

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]]> A roadside bomb planted  in central Mali has led to the deaths  five soldiers.

Some were on the  refueling truck blown up by the device and others died when the convoy come under attack by jihadis lying in wait.

The truck was travelling to Alatona near Mali’s border with Mauritania.

Thousands of soldiers and civilians have died in attacks by Islamist insurgents since 2012, making Mali the most deadly country in which to be a peacekeeper.

More than 140 soldiers have been killed in the last quarter of 2019 in Mali.

France intervened six years ago to stop its former colony being overrun from the north.

It still has at least 1000  troops in the country supporting those from Mali’s neighbours Burkina Faso, Niger, Mauritania and Chad. 

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