MALI: Increasingly Vulnerable.

B Militant attacks persist and MINUSMA suffers more losses. b Mines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) killed nine Mali soldiers during November in central and southern areas, the military said on December 4th. The claim added that JNIM militants torched an army motorcycle and seized military equipment. The German military has been in Mali since 2013, with a presence of up to 1,400 soldiers as part of the MINUSMA mission, mostly based near Gao in the north. [Extracted from the article]