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Mali troops killed by landmines in Mopti region

Six Malian troops were killed when their vehicles drove over improvised land mines in the center of the West African country

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Roadside bomb blast in Mali kills 9 soldiers in G5 Sahel joint force

Nine Malian soldiers attached to the G5 Sahel Joint Force were killed when a vehicle in which they were traveling was struck by a roadside bomb

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IED hidden in corpse kills 17 in central Mali

Seventeen people were killed in a blast caused by a booby-trapped corpse in Diankabou in central Mali, security sources and a local official said

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Mali: France airstrike kills 15 in Mopti as EU training base in Koulikoro attacked

French forces with Operation Barkhane and Malian forces killed 15 suspected members of Katiba Macina in an airstrike in Mopti

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French forces kill JNIM deputy leader El Hamame in Mali, Parly says

French forces have killed a top al-Qaeda and JNIM leader, Yahya Abou El Hamame, in an operation in Mali, defense minister Florence Parly said

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Mali soldier wounded in firefight with German peacekeepers

A Malian soldier was seriously wounded during a night-time exchange of fire with German troops serving as UN peacekeepers in the west African nation

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Terrorism ‘expanding’ in Sahel, African Union security chief warns

The African Union peace and security chief Smail Chergui deplored the spread of "terrorism" in the Sahel region.

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Ex-jihadists among 5,000 to sign up for Mali disarmament program

Some 5,000 fighters signed up to a disarmament program in Mali's conflict-plagued central region, including suspected ex-jihadists

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G5 Sahel leaders again call for UN assistance to fund Joint Force

Five nations waging a battle against militants in Africa's Sahel region again asked for UN funding and other aid to help tackle the cross-border jihadist insurgency

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Romania to replace Canada peacekeepers in UN’s Mali mission

Romania will deploy transport helicopters to the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA), replacing the Canadian deployment

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