Loading ...Five gendarmes were killed and four were injured when a convoy they were escorting to an Australian-owned gold mine in southern Mali came under attack by militants, the army said.
The al Qaeda-linked Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) has claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s attack, Menastream, a risk consultancy group that monitors jihadist activity across the Sahel region, reported on Wednesday.