Mali attacks
Strike kills six in Mali in disputed circumstances
It was the second time in recent months that an air strike had led to such opposing versions of what happened.
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Almost 150 extrajudicial killings by Malian, Burkinabe troops: UN Report
The quarterly report also found 50 extrajudicial killings in late May by Burkina Faso troops in the village of Boulkessi, and settlements close to the nation's Mali border.
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African summit seeks to ease Mali crisis
The unrest deeply worries Mali's neighbours and allies, who fear a country bloodied by a jihadist insurgency could slide into chaos.
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20 Mali soldiers killed in jihadist attack
Militants attacked a military base in the northern town of Bamba early on Monday morning, according to a local government official, who called the assailants 'terrorists' and said at least 20 soldiers had died.
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ANALYSIS: Will coronavirus slow the world's conflicts or intensify them?
In recent days, some 30 Malian soldiers were killed in an attack in northern Mali blamed on jihadists, without drawing any sharp reaction from the Security Council.
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Attacks, ethnic massacres leave ghost villages in central Mali
An Islamist insurgency erupted in the north of the vast west African state in 2012, claiming thousands of military and civilian lives since.
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Three Mali soldiers killed in suspected jihadist attack
The outpost in Bambara Maoude, about 100 kilometres south of the city of Timbuktu "was the object at about 0500 GMT of a terrorist attack", teh military said.
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40 killed in attacks in restive central Mali
Thirty-one people were killed in an attack overnight in Ogossagou, a village mainly inhabited by Fulani people, while eight soldiers were killed in an ambush in the central Gao region and another in an attack on a military camp in Mondoro.
