Master Corporal Prosper Ndikumana was killed in the second ambush while two Bangladeshi peacekeepers were also injured. ![]() A MINUSCA patrol made up of peacekeepers from Burundi and Bangladesh was carrying out a security operation when it was targeted by two successive ambushes. On 15 January 2021, Prosper Ndikumana, a peacekeeper from Burundi with MINUSCA, was killed near the town of Grimari, Ouaka prefecture, during an attack carried out by alleged Coalition des Patriotes pour le Changement combatants. ![]() On 15 January 2021, Ahmed Mahmoud Rizk, a peacekeeper from Egypt with MINUSMA, was killed and another was seriously injured in an explosive device attack against a MINUSMA logistics convoy near Tessalit, Kidal region, Mali. On 13 January 2021, Jean d’Amour Nsabimana, a peacekeeper from Rwanda serving with MINUSCA, was killed in an attack by unidentified armed combatants on MINUSCA and Central African national defence and security forces near Bangui. The attack by unidentified armed elements occurred to the north of the town of Bambara Maoudé, Timbuktu region. Five more peacekeepers were also wounded. Doumbia Yacouba, a MINUSMA peacekeeper also from Togo, died the next day from his injuries. On 13 January 2021, Adama Bakayoko, Jean Bernard Guiégui and Bamba Moustapha, three peacekeepers from Côte d’Ivoire serving with MINUSMA, were killed when their convoy was struck by an improvised explosive device, and then the troops came under attack. The figures for preceding years are as follows: 2020 (15 killed), 2019 (28 killed) 2018 (34 killed) 2017 (71 killed) 2016 (32 killed) 2015 (51 killed) 2014 (61 killed) 2013 (58 killed) 2012 (37 killed) 2011 (35 killed) and 2010 (15 killed).įollowing is the list of deliberate attacks, compiled by the United Nations Staff Union Standing Committee on the Security and Independence of the International Civil Service. The one civilian killed was from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ![]() The peacekeepers who died in 2021 were from Togo (8), Chad (4), Côte d’Ivoire (3), Egypt (3), Rwanda (1), Burundi (1), Democratic Republic of the Congo (1), Gabon (1), Malawi (1) and Morocco (1). This brings the death toll to at least 462 United Nations and associated personnel who were killed in deliberate attacks in the past 11 years from improvised explosive devices, rocket-propelled grenades, artillery fire, mortar rounds, landmines, armed and successive ambushes, convoy attacks, suicide attacks and targeted assassinations. ![]() We call on Governments to do the utmost to protect United Nations personnel and prosecute their killers.”įor the eighth year in a row, the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) was the world’s most dangerous, with 19 peacekeepers killed there, followed by four fatalities in the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA). “No one was apprehended and sentenced for such crimes. “Once again, United Nations staff members, especially ‘blue helmets’, serving in the world’s most dangerous places paid the highest price,” said the United Nations Staff Union President, Aitor Arauz. Mission in Mali Continues to Suffer Greatest Number of FatalitiesĪt least 25 United Nations staff members and associated personnel - one civilian and 24 peacekeepers, including two women peacekeepers - were killed in deliberate attacks during 2021, according to the Standing Committee for the Security and Independence of the International Civil Service of the United Nations Staff Union.
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