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Shortly before the arrival of Federal President Gauck in the West African country of Mali Islamists a base of the UN peacekeeping mission attacked. At least five blue helmets were killed and 30 more injured.

Federal President Gauck will be at the airport of Bamako with military honors received

The attack on the Camp of the United Nations in Kidal found after Reports of the French Auslandssenders RFI early in the Morning instead, just a few hours before German President Joachim Gauck on an official visit in Mali was expected. The beschossene UN base, the UN Minusma Mission, located in the northeast of the country, and was in the past already several times the target of extremists. In the killed blue helmets, according RFI to soldiers from Guinea. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon condemned the attack in a New York statement published as war crimes.

The most dangerous of the UN Mission worldwide

Germany supports the use of the UN in Mali and wants in the future up to 650 soldiers in the country to send. The had of the Bundestag at the end of January decided. So far had the army a mandate for 150 soldiers. At the beginning of the month were the first 40 soldiers at their place of work, the former rebel stronghold city of Goa in the North of Mali arrived. In the relatively secure South of Mali are currently about 200 armed forces members in the framework of an EU Mission, the Malian soldiers.

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Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen had last week against the dangers of the Minusma deployment in the North warned. He is regarded as the most dangerous of the UN Mission in the world. Only a week ago were during an Attack on a UN base in Timbuktu, a Malian soldier and at least four attackers have been killed. To attack well-known a North African offshoot of the Terrornetzwerks Al-Qaeda.

The difficult task of Minusma Mission

The UN Mission, Minusma (Multidimensional Integrated stabilisation mission in Haiti) covers up to 11.240 blue helmets and 1440 police officers. The robust mandate also allows the use of weapons. The use is intended to, among other things, the agreed ceasefire between the parties to the conflict to accompany and help the state authority to recover, to protect the civilians and malisches cultural heritage to preserve. Mali was about three years ago after a coup and the uprising of armed groups in a serious crisis. Islamist militias occupied the North.

At the beginning of 2013 attacked French troops and pushed them back. But the armed groups entrenched themselves and commit again and again attacks. In the Region deliver the Islamists and the army and allied militias time and again battles.

Gauck’s visit begins in Bamako

Meanwhile, it was Gauck in Mali’s capital Bamako was from President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita welcomed. The focus of the conversations is the struggle against Islamist terrorist groups and rebels in the North. Gauck wants to be with members of the European training mission EUTM, Minusma, and with German police officers and development workers speak. Afterwards, a visit to the Feldlagers for German and other European soldiers in Koulikoro in Bamako provided.

cw/qu (dpa, epd, afp)

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