{"id":4698,"date":"2017-06-17T11:41:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T11:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/?p=4698"},"modified":"2017-06-19T11:49:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T11:49:48","slug":"mali-tombouctou-several-dead-in-an-attack-against-the-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/mali-tombouctou-several-dead-in-an-attack-against-the-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali-Tombouctou: several dead in an attack against the army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Armed men attacked a detachment of the Malian army in Bintagoungou, a village about 40km from the Goundam circle in the Timbuktu region on Saturday early in the morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a local security source reached by Sahelien.com, the report \u201cis very heavy\u201d without wanting to say more. Adding that there were also \u201chostages or missing\u201d in addition to the military equipment that was taken.<\/p>\n<p>In Bamako, an official at the Ministry of Defense confirmed the attack indicating that there were at least \u201cthree dead and eight wounded\u201d. \u201cThis is an assessment that I still have to confirm\u201d, he insists.<\/p>\n<p>In Mali, attacks on the Malian and international armed forces are increasing. Despite the signing of a peace agreement in 2015 after the French intervention to dislodge the extremists from the north of the country, many armed groups and terrorists are more active than ever.<\/p>\n<p>In a new report on Thursday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the country&#8217;s army had sustained 105 attacks since June 2016. During this period 131 soldiers were killed and 176 others injured, according to Guterres.<\/p>\n<a  class=\"vc_btn vc_btn-black vc_btn-sm vc_btn_square \" href=\"#\">Aboubacar Dicko<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed men attacked a detachment of the Malian army in Bintagoungou, a village about 40km from the Goundam circle in the Timbuktu region on Saturday early in the morning. According to a local security source reached by Sahelien.com, the report \u201cis very heavy\u201d without wanting to say more. Adding that there were also \u201chostages or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698","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=4698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4700,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions\/4700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}