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Terrorist: stop in Mali in response to Gauck’s visit to
The Islamist terrorist group Ansar Dine has become an attack on a UN camp in Krisenstaat Mali and the action with the visit of Federal President Gauck in the African country founded.
The fighters of Ansar Dine in Mali
The action was a message to the “conqueror of the crusaders,” and that they supported them, like the “German President” with his visit in Mali have done, is the Internet network explanation of the Al-Qaeda allies in Mali Dschihadistengruppe Ansar Dine. Federal President Joachim Gauck held on Friday on a state in the capital city of Bamako in southern Mali, as the stop in the North occurred.
Six UN soldiers killed
According to the United Nations, were six soldiers of the UN peacekeeping force were killed and about 30 more injured, as the extremists on the UN base in Kidal in northeast Mali with rockets and a car bomb attacks. The killed blue helmets came from Guinea. Shortly after this attack were a Robbery in the vicinity of Timbuktu three Malian soldiers killed. They were jihadists from an ambush had been attacked, said a representative of the army of the West African state.
Mali after a military coup in March 2012 plunged into Chaos. Ansar Dine is one of several Islamist groups, from March 2012 until the beginning of January 2013 the Northern Mali under their control had brought. The former colonial power, France, handle, finally, militarily, to the Advance of the Islamists and rebels from the North to the South of the country to stop and the weakened government support. Later surrendered to the French the responsibility of the UN Mission Minusma.
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More German soldiers
The use is currently considered as the world’s most dangerous UN Mission. Again and again, are the government army and the 10,000 man strong Minusma force goal of
Attacks by Islamist groups. The protection force is also used by the German armed forces supports. The Bundestag had in January decided to, the use of widened and up to 650 soldiers in the North of Mali to send.
Gauck was during his visit to Bamako with President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita met together and had the guidance of Mali called, the stabilization of the
Country also with its own commitment to promote.”We have the Our done with the announced military contingent,” said the German head of state.
Gauck in Mali: reception with military honours
The threat of Mali by terrorist, separatists and Criminals but had to be alone with military means does not contain, stressed Gauck. The need for long-term prospects for young people and the unemployed, as well as a better supply with water, food and medicine.
Before his return flight to Berlin, visited Gauck in Bamako and in the field camp Koulikoro, about 60 kilometers away, German soldiers. You are there in the framework of the European training mission EUTM in use.
wl/rb (dpa, afp, rtr)