Two attacks on the United Nation’s peacekeeping mission in Mali has left one Nigerian soldier dead.
Several others were injured in the attacks and three of them were also Nigerians.
According to Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, the attacks were carried out in Timbuktu in the north of the country where several groups of militants are active.
Also, three UN soldiers who were from Chad were injured in Tessalit in the northern Kidal region very close to the country’s border with Algeria.
They sustained injury when their vehicle drove over an explosive device.
Guterres described the attacks on the soldiers as war crimes and commiserated with the families of the deceased soldiers.
It would be recalled that Mali has been under attack of armed groups since 2012.
The UN has been on peacekeeping mission in the country since 2013 and faced a number of attacks in the north of the country.
