Late Friday night the United Nations Security Council condemned “in the strongest terms” an attack earlier in the day on a vehicle of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) that killed a Nigerien peacekeeper in Gao, which is in the country's restive north.
UN strongly condemns latest deadly attack peacekeepers in northern Mali
- 07 April 2018
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