UN chief visits deadliest peacekeeping mission in Mali
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is visiting the world's deadliest UN peacekeeping mission on a trip to Mali.
The UN says the mission in the West African nation saw 21 peacekeepers and seven civilians killed last year, the fourth year in a row that it suffered the greatest loss of life among missions worldwide.
The UN mission has been the target of attacks by a number of extremist groups in Mali's vast north.
Guterres is expected to attend a ceremony paying tribute to the fallen UN peacekeepers and visit the command post for the recently created five-nation regional G5 Sahel counter-extremism force.
He also is visiting with President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and other officials just two months before presidential elections.
