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A violent start to the year: Mali, the most dangerous UN mission on earth

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In the latest attacks against the United Nations mission in the sub-Saharan nation of Mali (MINUSMA), two more blue helmets were killed and one more U.N. peacekeeper was injured in a separate improvised explosive device (IED) blast.

The two blue helmets who died in the blast were from Sri Lanka. Several others were injured in the assault which took place near Douentza in the Mopti region. This sector has become rich with radical activities over the last 12 months. The U.N. peacekeepers were on patrol in the area at around 6 a.m., when their vehicle, part of a logistics convoy, hit an IED within the Mopti region.

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  • odb

    Canada has medics there supported by some CH-146 Griffons and CH-147 Chinooks.

  • Wilson G

    A lot of these Jihadis are going to set up shop in Sub-Saharan Africa because it has everything they want and need. Weak governments with porous borders, rough jungle terrain etc. This area is the tropical version of Afghanistan and as such the ideal place to move into if you’re a terrorist group.
    The local governments, being weak, won’t be able to do much about this. The Western world simply won’t do much about this until the jihadis start using the area to launch major attacks in Europe or the Americas and by then the bad guys are dug in like ticks in an area we basically can’t get them out of without enormous cost in terms of money, lives and gear.
    On top of that we’re never really going to get as serious about killing these guys as we are about being PC. We’ve had the opportunities to wipe these kind of groups from the face of the Earth in multiple places and we haven’t done it for a simple reason: it’s not acceptable in the “civilized world” to do what you would actually need to do. Heck, it’s not even acceptable to mention what would be needed. Just talking about the necessary brutality would get the pearl clutchers going, doing it is totally out of the question. Add to that the political issues that would arise and this kind of thing is never going to happen.
    It’s only a matter of time until these kind of people launch major attacks or, worse, the kind of unrest the create in the area prevents modern medicine from containing an outbreak of some nasty disease and it becomes a world-wide pandemic.