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                        5 UN Peacekeepers Killed in Mali

   by VOA News

   Officials in northern Mali say a roadside bomb has killed five United
   Nations peacekeepers.

   Authorities say several other peacekeepers were wounded in the blast
   Thursday in the north of Aguelhok, near the embattled city of Kidal.

   There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

   Four U.N. peacekeepers were killed by a mine blast earlier this month
   in the same region.

   The latest attack follows the resumption of talks in Algiers between
   the Mali government and rebel groups, aimed at clinching a lasting
   peace agreement in the deeply divided nation.

   Riven by ethnic rivalries, a Tuareg rebellion and an Islamist
   insurgency in its vast desert north, Mali has struggled for stability
   and peace since a military coup in 2012.
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