An explosion on Wednesday in central Mali killed seven United Nations peacekeepers and seriously wounded three others, the U.N. mission said on Twitter.
Militants killed at least 31 people in central Mali on Friday when they fired upon a bus ferrying people to a local market, local authorities said - the latest deadly attack in a region racked by violent insurgency.
One U.N. peacekeeper was killed and four more were severely wounded when their convoy hit an improvised explosive device in northern Mali on Saturday, the United Nations' force in Mali said.
(Corrects 5th and 6th paragraphs to clarify that Colonel Modibo Kone was not given a ministerial post. A civilian with the same name was appointed environment minister.)
BAMAKO Mali’s transitional government announced on Friday it had restored Colonel Sadio Camara as defense minister, after his removal from office was one of…