The military junta in Mali ordered the United Nations peacekeeping mission MINUSMA to leave the country earlier this year. The peacekeepers' convoys have been hit by multiple improvised explosive devices.
"On Saturday, the convoy encountered two other improvised explosive devices near the town of Anefis," Stephane Dujarric, a spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, told reporters on Monday.since the peacekeepers began leaving their base in Kidal on October 31, bringing the total number of peacekeeprs injured in the convoy to 39.
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