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Operation Serval (French: Opération Serval) was a French military operation in Mali. [20] The aim of the operation was to oust Islamic militants from the north of Mali, [21] who had begun a push into the center of Mali. [22] Operation Serval followed the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2085 of 20 December 2012 and an official ...
The killing of several civilians in the village of Bounti in 2022, which was carried out by French fighter-jets, sparked one of Mali's most significant anti-France protests against French military intervention and Operation Barkhane. [27] [28] On 18 March 2022, the military government of Mali asked France to withdraw its troops "without delay".
Prior to the beginning of Operation Barkhane, 10 French troops had been killed in Mali as part of Operation Serval. [124] Since the launch of Operation Barkhane in August 2014, the French Ministère des Armées listed 38 servicemen were reported killed in Mali, 2 in Burkina Faso and one in Chad. [ 125 ]
In mid-2014, the French military in Mali ended its Operation Serval and transitioned to the broader regional counterterrorist effort, Operation Barkhane. Despite a ceasefire agreement signed on 19 February 2015 in Algiers , Algeria , and a peace accord in the capital on 15 April 2015, fighting continued.
3 April: Armed groups looted 2,354 tons of food from United Nations' World Food Programme's warehouses in Kidal, Gao and Timbuktu, causing the WFP to suspend its operations in northern Mali. [17] 4 April: Civil society and 50 political parties in Mali refuse to take part in a discussion with the military government on plans for the future. [6]
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The French Government announced that the soldier "was mortally wounded during fighting against armed terrorists taking refuge in the Adrar of the Ifoghas, in northern Mali." [ 5 ] Colonel Thierry Burkhard told French Media that French paratroopers had been engaged with Terrorists throughout the day on several occasions.
The Battle of Konna was a battle in the Northern Mali Conflict in the town of Konna in central Mali.Various Islamic fundamentalist rebels fought with the government of Mali, the latter of which was supported by French soldiers participating in Operation Serval.