Mon 06 April 2020:
At least 20 Malian soldiers have been killed in an armed attack, local politicians and a military official said, in the latest bout of violence in the West African nation.
Fighters attacked a military base in the northern town of Bamba early on Monday morning, according to a local government official, who called the assailants “terrorists”.
Another local official gave a similar account, explaining that the fighters arrived on motorbikes and in cars.
“Investigations are still ongoing on the ground because the death toll must be higher than the 20 deaths announced,” the official told AFP news agency.
Mali has been struggling to contain an armed rebellion that first broke out in the north in 2012, and which has since spread to the centre of the country and to neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger.
Thousands of Malian soldiers and civilians have died in the conflict to date, despite the presence of thousands of French and United Nations troops in the country.
It was not immediately clear who carried out Monday’s attack.
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