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| UN soldiers have been helping to boost security in Mali since 2013 AFP |
Suspected Islamist
militants attacked a U.N. peacekeepers' base in the northern Mali town of Kidal
on Friday, killing several people and wounding others, a spokesman for the
separatist Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) told Reuters.
"There
is gunfire and mortar fire against the MINUSMA (U.N. peacemaking mission) camp.
It is an attack by the Islamists, apparently involving a suicide car bomb.
There are some dead and wounded but I do not know the exact number," said
CMA spokesman Radouane Ag Mohamed Aly.
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United
Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in December 2015 announced the
appointment of Mahamat Saleh Annadif of Chad as his Special Representative for
Mali and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization
Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). Mr. Annadif succeeds Mongi Hamdi of Tunisia, who
will complete his assignment on 14 January 2016. The Secretary-General is
grateful for Mr. Hamdi’s dedicated service and effective leadership at the helm
of MINUSMA.
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Meanwhile
BBC News reports that two United Nations peacekeepers in Mali have been killed
in an attack on one of their bases in Kidal, in the north of the
country.
Thirty
other blue helmets were injured in the raid, and a plane destroyed by mortar
fire.
A UN spokesman said reinforcements had been summoned from other bases in the
region and the attackers driven off.
The
UN is trying to restore peace to northern Mali, which was overrun in 2012 by
Islamist extremists and their allies, Tuareg separatists.
But it's one of the most
dangerous peacekeeping missions in the world, with the UN coming under frequent
attack.
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