On 21 February 2023, an improvised explosive device detonated at a police checkpoint in western Mali, killing a police officer and a civilian and wounding seven others. The attack occurred at the Nara National Police checkpoint on the road to Mauritania, according to the regional governor’s office. The civilian victim was an employee of the town hall, and a military official confirmed the incident to AFP.
Earlier, on 7 February, suspected jihadists attacked a checkpoint in the town of Nara, killing two police officers and a gendarme. Mali has been engulfed in a decade‑long security crisis that began with a regional revolt in the north and escalated into a full‑blown jihadist insurgency. The conflict has claimed thousands of lives, displaced hundreds of thousands of people, and caused severe economic damage to the landlocked nation.
Since August 2020, Mali has been under military rule. While the violence has been most intense in the centre and east of the country, it has also spread to neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger.
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