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“This attack will not lessen the determination of the United Nations to accompany the Malian people in their efforts to implement the peace agreement”, the statement said.

The men were pilots and engineers contracted by the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, she said. The workers – two South Africans, one Russian and a Ukrainian – were able to avoid detection during the deadly events that left a dozen people dead.

Malian security forces on Saturday stormed a hotel used by United Nations staff and freed four hostages held there by suspected Islamist militants who had killed at least six people during their attack.

Gunmen in Mali have killed at least five people in an attack on a hotel in the central town of Sevare, officials say.

A heavy firefight broke out when the Malian army tried to force the militants out of the hotel claiming the lives of five soldiers and three gunmen, including one allegedly wearing an explosive belt.

At least four people, including two soldiers, were killed in an attack on a military base and a hotel frequented by Westerners in Mali, security sources told Anadolu Agency.

Five foreigners have been evacuated and a “number” of hostages freed after being trapped by gunmen in a hotel stand-off in central Mali that’s left at least seven people dead. Officials had earlier announced that five Malian soldiers were killed, two jihadis and...

At least one person was killed in an attack early on Friday by unidentified gunmen on a hotel in central Mali frequented by United Nations peacekeepers in the West African nation, a witness and a military spokesman said. “The attackers are still inside the hotel”, the...

Soldiers late Friday surrounded a central Mali hotel where at least 10 gunmen were holed up with hostages, witnesses said, after a daylong standoff that left a number of locals, foreigners and Malian soldiers dead.

Suspected Islamist militants have attacked a hotel in central Mali, killing at least seven people and exchanging fire with troops near the building, residents and military sources say.