Mali: Ban Voices 'Outrage' As UN Peacekeeper Killed in Second Deadly Attack This Month

8 October 2014

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced outrage today at a fatal attack against United Nations peacekeepers in Mali - the second in less than a week - that left one "blue helmet" dead and wounded another, while the UN peacekeeping chief urged Malian parties to make a "credible effort" to reach a peace accord.

On 7 October, a number of unidentified assailants launched approximately six mortar rounds at the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) camp in Kidal, in the country's northeast, resulting in the death of the Senegalese peacekeeper.

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