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Court orders death sentence for killings of UN peacekeepers

A Mali court sentenced a man to death for the killings of three United Nations peacekeepers almost four years ago, the UN mission in Mali said yesterday. The court in Bamako imposed the death sentence for a February 2019 attack on five peacekeepers, three of whom died, the mission reported in a tweet. The slayings happened in the rural Siby area. The death penalty hasn’t been carried out in Mali since 1980 because of a moratorium on executions, according to the UN. Thousands of United Nations peacekeeping troops have been in Mali for nearly a decade to protect civilians from extremist violence linked to al-Qaeda and Islamic State.

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