54 DEATH IN TERRORIST ATTACK IN MALI

The provisional balance sheet records 54 deaths, including one civilian. Reinforcements were dispatched near the border with Niger to track down the attackers.

Fifty-three Malian soldiers and a civilian were killed Friday, November 1, in a "terrorist attack" against a military camp in Indelimane, near the border with Niger, announced Mali's Minister of Communication Yaya Sangaré on Twitter. This attack has not been claimed.

With the attack on Friday, the Malian army suffers one of its heaviest losses for several years.

Forty soldiers were killed in two jihadist attacks on September 30 in Boulkessy and October 1 Mondoro, localities in the south of the country, near Burkina Faso, according to a report of a Defense Ministry official, according to several sources had been undervalued.

"The situation is under control. Raking and the process of identifying the bodies are continuing, "added the minister, reporting" ten survivors "and" significant material damage "in the locality of Ansongo, in the sector of Menaka (South-East) .

The Malian government announced on Friday night that it "condemned" this "terrorist attack that killed, wounded many and material damage on the side of the National Defense and Security Forces," according to a statement "Reinforcements have were dispatched to secure the area and track down the attackers, "added Bamako, without giving details of them. Malian soldiers are also reported missing.

Northern Mali had fallen in March-April 2012 under the guise of jihadist groups linked to al-Qaeda, thanks to the defeat of the army against the rebellion dominant Tuareg, first allied with these groups, which then ousted him.

The jihadists were largely driven out or dispersed following the launch in January 2013, at the initiative of France, of a military intervention, which continues.

However, jihadist violence not only persisted, but spread from north to central Mali, then to neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger, often intermingling with inter-communal conflicts that left hundreds dead.