{"id":2756,"date":"2021-01-04T11:26:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T11:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2021-01-04T11:26:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T11:26:13","slug":"mali-3-french-soldiers-killed-escalation-of-violence-un-evidence-of-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2756","title":{"rendered":"Mali: 3 French soldiers killed, escalation of violence &#038; UN evidence of war crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li class=\"wsj-article-headline\">\n<h3>Three French Soldiers Killed in Mali<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Three French soldiers were killed in Mali on Monday, 28\/12\/2020 when their vehicle hit a bomb during operations under France\u2019s counterterrorism mission.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/three-french-soldiers-killed-in-mali-during-counterterrorism-mission-11609189756?utm_source=iterable&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=1860064_\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Mali: Any End to the Storm?<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to ACLED, 2020 has been the deadliest year on record in Mali. The situation has deteriorated since 2016, when violence spread to central Mali. This led to an escalation in multi-directional violence through armed attacks, scaled-up military operations, and increased targeting of civilians. A military coup in August 2020 broke the status quo and has provided opportunities to change the country\u2019s downward trajectory. However, Mali\u2019s transitional government faces an uphill battle to build consensus and reign in the violence.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/acleddata.com\/2020\/12\/17\/mali-any-end-to-the-storm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/acleddata.com\/2020\/12\/17\/mali-any-end-to-the-storm\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1609840415042000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFl8pxsrNMfwTakXqEAonJ2mHZozA\">ACLED<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>UN Report: Evidence of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>United Nations investigators into violence in Mali provided evidence that security forces committed war crimes, and fighters and other armed groups perpetrated crimes against humanity between 2012-2018.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/12\/22\/un-mali-probe-sees-war-crimes-crimes-against-humanity?utm_source=iterable&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=1848852_\">Al Jazeera<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Soumaila Ciss\u00e9, leader of the opposition in Mali, has died\u00a0at the age of 71.<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/fr\/afrique\/20201225-le-chef-de-l-opposition-malienne-souma%C3%AFla-ciss%C3%A9-est-d%C3%A9c%C3%A9d%C3%A9-du-covid-19\">Rfi.fr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three French Soldiers Killed in Mali Three French soldiers were killed in Mali on Monday, 28\/12\/2020 when their vehicle hit a bomb during operations under France\u2019s counterterrorism mission. Read more on The Wall Street Journal Mali: Any End to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2756\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,5],"tags":[944,252,72,420,707],"class_list":["post-2756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-news","category-resources","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-france","tag-mali","tag-violence","tag-war-crimes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2757,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions\/2757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}