Off the wire
• About 20 injured in ethnic clashes in Algeria  • World moving toward new era of terrorism: Finnish PM  • Feature: High profiles in mass march denoucing terrorism  • Egypt police officer kidnapped by militants in Sinai  • Greece's radical left SYRIZA leads in opinion polls ahead of elections  • 1st LD: Twin blasts hit mobile phone market in NE Nigeria, casualties unknown  • EU mulls on multi-year security agenda to meet challenges  • Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1630 GMT, Jan. 11  • Roundup: Finnair teams up with human resources company to face personnel challenge  • Commentary: Press freedom has its limits  
You are here: 　 Home

Algeria strongly condemns attack against UN mission in Mali

Xinhua, January 12, 2015 Adjust font size:

Algeria on Sunday strongly condemned the "terrorist attack" targeting the UN Stabilization Mission in Mali (Menusma) in northern locality of Kidal, leaving several Senegalese soldiers wounded.

"Algeria expresses its solidarity with the Senegalese people and government, and extends condolence to the families of the injured soldiers," the official APS news agency quoted a foreign ministry statement as saying.

Algeria also reaffirmed its position to counter all forms of terrorism, adding that it is committed to regional and international efforts so as to achieve sustainable peace and stability in Mali.

The attack coincides with the cabinet reshuffle, in which Moussa Mara was appointed as the new prime minister.

Since 2012, Mali has been troubled by intense political and security crisis after extremist groups took control of the north of the country. But a French-led military intervention chased them away.

The UN mission in Mali has been on the ground in a bid to put the situation under control.

Meanwhile, Algeria has been trying to bring the Malian warrant parties to the negotiating table. Since June, 2014, three rounds of peace talks have been held. Endit