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                       UN Condemns Deadly attack in Mali

   The United Nations Security Council has condemned a suicide car bombing
   that killed two U.N. peacekeepers and wounded several others in Mali.
   The Senegalese soldiers, part of the U.N. peacekeeping force known as
   MINUSMA, were killed Saturday when the bomber detonated his car in
   front of a bank they were guarding in the northern city of Kidal.
   Malian security forces were also among the wounded. There was no
   immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
   Several militant groups, including the ethnic Tuareg, used the
   confusion of a military coup in the capital, Bamako, in March of 2012
   to assert control in the country`s north, where they planned to
   establish an Islamist state.
   The central government reasserted its control in northern Mali after a
   French-led military operation in January.
   The militants are no longer able to carry out major military actions,
   but the residual groups of these fighters stage sporadic small-scale
   attacks in the north.
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