Ber (Timbuktu)
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| Coordinates | 16 ° 50 ′ N , 2 ° 32 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Mali | ||
| Timbuktu | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | ML-6 | ||
| surface | 35,280 km² | ||
| Residents | 9536 (2009 census) | ||
| density | 0.3 Ew. / km² | ||
Ber is a small town and rural community in central Mali in the Timbuktu region in the county Timbuktu . The city is about 8 km north of the bank of the Niger River . Ber is about 53 km east of Timbuktu on the slope (R 32) that connects Bourem with Timbuktu. At the 2009 census , the parish had 9,536 inhabitants.
history
As a result of the coup in Mali in 2012, there was a UN blue helmets base in Ber as part of the MINUSMA mission . A suicide attack was carried out on them on August 16, 2014, in which two members of the peacekeeping forces were killed and seven more injured. In 2016, the UN base in Ber was the target of al-Qaeda attacks in the Maghreb .
Town twinning
The German city of Püttlingen has been linked to Ber since 1990 as part of a support partnership, as has the French city of Saint-Michel-sur-Orge .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mali: Security Council condemns recent deadly suicide attack on UN base. United Nations , August 18, 2014, accessed July 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Caleb Weiss: AQIM claims two attacks in northern Mali. Foundation for Defense of Democracies, November 30, 2016, accessed July 29, 2017 .
- ^ Partnership with Ber in Mali. (No longer available online.) City of Püttlingen, archived from the original on July 29, 2017 ; Retrieved July 29, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
