{"id":4584,"date":"2017-05-24T11:27:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T11:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/?p=4584"},"modified":"2017-05-29T20:47:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T20:47:10","slug":"mali-at-least-two-dead-in-a-new-attack-against-minusma-in-the-kidal-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/mali-at-least-two-dead-in-a-new-attack-against-minusma-in-the-kidal-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali: At least two dead in a new attack against Minusma in the Kidal region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A patrol of the UN mission in Mali was attacked early on Tuesday morning in Aguel hoc in the Kidal region. According to a UN source reached in Kidal, the attackers launched rockets into the village which was being crisscrossed by the peacekeepers. These rockets were followed by other firearms. \u00ab There were exchanges of fire and two peacekeepers were killed \u00bb, adds our source.<\/p>\n<p>Other reports indicate that several attackers were captured by UN forces. Information that we were not able to verify with the mission in Bamako where we tried to reach the heads of the communication cell. However, in a statement, Minusma confirmed the attack adding that another peacekeeper was wounded. But it did not say anything about the attackers who had been captured.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"fr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mali?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Mali<\/a>: Attack against <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MINUSMA?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MINUSMA<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Aguelhok?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Aguelhok<\/a> ~7h this morning, at least 1 dead &amp; 1 wounded, 4 individuals subsequently arrested &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/issalan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@issalan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MENASTREAM (@MENASTREAM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MENASTREAM\/status\/866968644559015936\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">23 mai 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"fr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">Affrontements \u00e0 Adjeulhock entre le contingent Tchadien et les terroristes 2 morts c\u00f4t\u00e9 minusma et +sieurs terroristes arr\u00eat\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fahad Ag Almahmoud (@Idarfa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Idarfa\/status\/866997485352488960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">23 mai 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This attack is the third in less than a month after those in Timbuktu on May 3 and 16. In total, a peacekeeper was killed and thirteen others wounded during these two attacks. In Mali since 2013 following the French intervention, Minusma is considered to be the \u00ab most dangerous \u00bb mission in the history of the United Nations in peacekeeping operations.<\/p>\n<a  class=\"vc_btn vc_btn-black vc_btn-sm vc_btn_square \" href=\"#\">Aboubacar Dicko<\/a>\n<p><em>Translated by Mahaitou Ibrahim Maiga<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A patrol of the UN mission in Mali was attacked early on Tuesday morning in Aguel hoc in the Kidal region. According to a UN source reached in Kidal, the attackers launched rockets into the village which was being crisscrossed by the peacekeepers. These rockets were followed by other firearms. \u00ab There were exchanges of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[23,52,54,46,26,58,59,47,50,28,48,55,51,30,57,56,35,38,45,44,49,53],"class_list":{"0":"post-4584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mali","8":"tag-actualite-du-sahel","9":"tag-agadez","10":"tag-aqmi","11":"tag-barkhane","12":"tag-burkina-faso","13":"tag-desert","14":"tag-droits-de-lhomme","15":"tag-g5-sahel","16":"tag-gao","17":"tag-gatia","18":"tag-informations-sur-le-sahel","19":"tag-iyad-ag-ghaly","20":"tag-kidal","21":"tag-mali","22":"tag-migration","23":"tag-mnla","24":"tag-niger","25":"tag-sahel","26":"tag-sahelien","27":"tag-terrorisme","28":"tag-tombouctou","29":"tag-trafic-de-drogue"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4586,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions\/4586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}