Chief of staff of the head of Mali's junta is among four people killed in an attack earlier this week, says government
Militants have seized swathes of territory across the Sahel, a categorisation used for a group of countries comprising Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.
Oumar Traore, chief of staff of Colonel Assimi Goita, was killed in the ambush some 400 kilometres north of the capital Bamako near the Mauritanian border on Tuesday, the government said on Thursday. The document identifies three other victims including a security guard, a contractor and a driver. Another driver is missing, it said.Traore's funeral will take place on Thursday in Kati, a garrison town near the capital Bamako, the document said.Continued militant insurgency
Dr Mahamadou Diawara was taken from his car in the town of Menaka, located in an eastern region where militant groups linked to Al Qaeda and Daesh are active.Mali is battling a rampant militant insurgency that hijacked a Tuareg rebellion in the north in 2012. The Tuareg are the majority ethnic group in the Kidal Region of northeastern Mali.
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