United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the Security
Council to add just over 2,500 peacekeepers to the U.N. peacekeeping
mission in Mali.
Mali pro-govt militia kills 8 Islamists in clash: sources (Wikipedia)
A Malian pro-government militia has killed eight Islamist fighters in a gunbattle in northern Mali, two security sources said on Sunday.
Clashes
between the militia and the Macina Liberation Front erupted on Saturday
in Gourma-Rharous village, in the Timbuktu region of Mali which has
long been plagued by Islamist militants, a military source and one from
the militia told Reuters by telephone.
They had no details of how the clashes started.
Mali's
government and various separatist groups signed a peace deal last year
but it has failed to prevent periodic violence in northern Mali by
Islamist militants, who have also staged assaults on high profile
targets in the capital Bamako, Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast.
United
Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the Security Council to
add just over 2,500 peacekeepers to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in
Mali.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic
Maghreb (AQIM) has claimed an attack on two U.N. sites in northern Mali
at the end of last month, in which a peacekeeper from China and three
civilians were killed and over a dozen others wounded.
French
forces intervened in 2013 to drive back Islamist fighters that had
hijacked the Tuareg uprising to seize Mali's desert north in 2012, but
it has since proved difficult to prevent Islamists staging deadly
attacks.
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