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Added on the 03/01/2021 13:21:40 - Copyright : Euronews EN
The country risk analyst, Jihane Boudiaf, gives her thoughts on the attack against 2 french soldiers in Mali
Just this weekend, seven French troops in Mali were injured and one UN peacekeeper killed in a four-hour rocket, mortar and car bomb attack on their camp at Timbuktu airport. Five years after the French army intervened in Mali to stop an Islamist insurgency, our reporters Claire Paccalin and Fanny Allard have been to the east of the country, which is still far from stabilized. They followed French and Malian soldiers in their operations to fight terrorists and win the trust of the population.
The French government has confirmed the deaths of two French soldiers in Mali, after the destruction of their armoured vehicle by an improvised explosive device during an operation in the region of Tessalit in north of country.
A French soldier was killed in a mortar attack on a military camp in the northern Mali city of Gao, France's presidency said on Sunday. William Lawrence, professor in Washington American University tells us more.
A suicide car bomber attacked French troops patrolling in central Mali on Monday, according to France's military, wounding six soldiers and four civilians including a child in the war-torn West African country. The French soldiers, who were travelling in a vehicle, were on a reconnaissance mission near the town of Gossi to secure the area around a nearby forward operating base. Dominique Trinquand, former head of French military mission to the UN speaks to FRANCE 24.
A car bomb explosion targeting France's Barkhane force in the central Malian town of Gossi on Monday injured several soldiers, local sources told FRANCE 24. Several helicopters have been dispatched to the area, according to witnesses. FRANCE 24's Terrorism specialist Wassim Nasr