3 UN peacekeepers killed, 5 injured in central Mali

In Mali, three United Nations peacekeepers were killed and five were seriously injured on Tuesday when their convoy struck a roadside bomb.

The UN mission in a tweet said, a MINUSMA Force convoy hit an Improvised Explosive Device in the central part of the country. The UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali, MINUSMA, was created in 2013.

An impoverished state



lying in the heart of West Africa's Sahel, Mali, is struggling with an 11-year-old insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes.

With more than 13,500 military personnel and police, it is one of the biggest but also deadliest UN peacekeeping missions, suffering a high toll, especially to Improvised Explosive Devices.