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The Secretary-General condemns today’s attacks perpetrated against the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) in Timbuktu and Mopti regions. Preliminary reports indicate that the attack against the camp in Ber resulted in two peacekeepers from Burkina Faso…

Attack against United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the attacks perpetrated on 27 October 2018 against the camp of MINUSMA in Ber (Timbuktu region) and against a convoy of MINUSMA near…

In just over a decade, more than a thousand journalists have been killed while carrying out their indispensable work. Nine out of ten cases are unresolved, with no one held accountable. Female journalists are often at greater risk of being targeted not only for their reporting but also because of…

As the sun rises over Mali’s vast desert, a group of 20 men prepare their equipment and line up to receive instructions before heading out for their first patrol of the day on one of the most dangerous roads in the region. They are Guinean Blue helmets from the United Nations Multidimensional…

Since joining the Guinean forces 10 years ago, Kadiatu Bah, 33, has risen through the ranks to become the only female driver of the mobile vehicles fleet of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Kidal, north of Mali. “For me, it doesn’t matter whether I am the only woman in the group of 50 men…

My name is Odette Kwizera. I am from Burundi. I have spent 3 years and 4 months in Mali as a United Nations volunteer. I work as a radio producer with Mikado FM, the United Nations radio in Mali and one of MINUSMA’s Public Information and Strategic Communication Division’s Units. I am assigned in…

My name is Angela Peca and I am 30 years old. I am a proud Portuguese, born and bred in the city of Coimbra. I am also nationalized British as I have worked and lived in the city of London. I am an UNV Nurse at the Level I Clinic of MINUSMA in Timbuktu in charge of providing emergent and non…

On December 8, the MINUSMA Bangladeshi Formed Police Unit (BANFPU-2) provided free medical consultations for to the people of Goundam town, with the aim of bringing relief to the population but also to engender trust between them and MINUSMA peacekeepers. The activity was carried out at the…

It’s Thursday morning in Konna, and crowds have descended from all over the region to join one of the largest open-air port markets, right in the center of Mali. We are in the region of Mopti. Shoppers navigate through the noisy improvised street filled with goods and merchants, their flip flops…

Last year, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued “a red alert” over a range of dangers confronting the world, which “still persist” as 2019 looms: “These are anxious times for many, and our world is undergoing a stress test,” the UN chief said on Saturday in his message for the…

A convoy of several heavily-armored vehicles cross the sandy streets of the remote village of Dangatene. The white vehicles with a black UN logo are crossing a stretch of land in southeast of Mali’s central Mopti region. Scores of villagers young and old rush to the side of the roads to watch the…

Mamadou Bocoum is the Director of Kaoural radio and Regional Coordinator of Radio and Television Broadcasting Union (URTEL) in Mopti, Central Mali. He is passionate about his job, as he defends the importance of community radios in the lives of the population in the region. According to him, the…