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This is the first attack against the G5, a military force composed of Mali, Niger, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Chad, which aims to fight against jihadist terrorism
The jihadist group Nusrat claims responsibility for the armed attack the headquarters of the G5 military force in the Sahel in central Mali, which has killed at least six people.
The heavy explosions occurred in the administrative district of Sévaré near the city of Mopti in the center of the country. The initial shootings were followed by an automatic shootout, which forced residents of the region to remain sealed at home for several hours until the end of the conflict.
This is the first attack against the G5, a military force composed of Mali, Niger, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Chad, which aims to fight against jihadist terrorism and, after going through an embryonic phase, began to increase its activity over the last few months
This attack comes four days after a meeting between G5 leaders and French President Emmanuel Macron as part of the preparations for the African Union Summit .
On June 28, the United Nations) extended for another year the mandate of Minusma, which has 15,000 military and police officers, in the UN peacekeeping mission with the death rate on higher.
Fighting more effectively the jihadist groups present at its borders, the states of the region (Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad) formed the G5 of the Sahel which, after its initial phase, began to increase these last months.
Between March and April 2012, northern Mali fell into the hands of extremist groups linked to the al-Qaida terrorist network. The progress on the ground of these extremist groups was led by an international military operation launched in January 2013, at the initiative of France
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